Re: [xsl] Losing white-space in mixed content

[me@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

> When processing two consecutive elements in mixed
> content separated by
> white-space, using text output in XSLT, the
white-space
> gets lost.  
> This occurs using Saxon 6.5.2 under Red Hat 9: I
> haven't tested it with
> anything else yet, but the sister stylesheet which
> output HTML keeps the
> white-space as expected. Is this a bug or a feature of
> XSLT text-mode?
> Output from Saxon:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> Created using the \product{DocBook}\acro{DTD} on
> 2003-05-05.
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> This looks wrong: the white-space in mixed content
> should be honoured
> between the productname element and the acronym
> element. Both nsgmls
> and rxp retain the newline and space tokens. Or have I
> missed something
> arcane in the XSLT spec?
I know little about the spec (so much reading! hehehe),
but here is the output 

from Xalan 2.5
+========================================+
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Created using the \product{DocBook}\acro{DTD} on
2003-05-05.

\end{document}
+========================================+
and saxon7.4
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Created using the \product{DocBook}\acro{DTD} on
2003-05-05.

\end{document}
+========================================+

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