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

["Wei, Alice J." <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

  Another thing you might want to try to strip the space is to use

    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

Alice

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Alice Wei
MIS 2008
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: Mansour [mailto:mansour77@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:04 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] How to prevent spaces in the output

That did the trick. Thank you.
I did not now that <xsl:text> will clear the spaces around it.
Thanks a lot.


Abel Braaksma wrote:
> 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 ??