Re: [xsl] How to prevent spaces in the output

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mansour,

This is a FAQ. Use xsl:text when you want to output text. The reason 
that you see whitespace is because around the "=" sign, there's 
significant whitespace because you created mixed content. Using xsl:text 
you avoid this:

<xsl:text>=</xsl:text>

Of course, alternatively you can also remove the significant whitespace.

On a side note: your xsl:for-each is not necessary. If it is the only 
instruction in your template, you can remove it completely (it is 
redundant) while changing the template match to this:

<xsl:template match="something/@*">
  <formatting....

If you left out some code and you do more in the template, you can also 
split it:

<xsl:template match="something">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
    ... other things on "something"
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="something/@*">
    <formatting...
</xsl:template>


HTH,
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma


Mansour wrote:
> Hello every one:
> I am facing some difficulties with the spaces in the resulting output. 
> For example:
>
> <xsl:template match="something" >
> <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>                        <formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
>                            <xsl:value-of select="concat(' ',name(.))" />
>                        </formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
>                        =
>                        <formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
>                            <xsl:value-of
>                                select="concat('&quot;',.,'&quot;')" />
>                        </formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
>                    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> the output is :
> <formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
> attri
> </formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
> =
> <formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
> "value"
> </formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
>
>
> Then when I convert it to html, there are spaces like this: attri = 
> "value"
>
> How do I avoid this ??