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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:38:50PM +0100, Lyndon J B Nixon wrote: > At 17:51 21.11.2001 +0000, you wrote: > >>is it possible to preserve space in attribute values when passing them to > >>a XSLT processor? > >> > >> > >>Attribute values are normalized according to XML rules before the XSLT > >>processor gets to see them. This means newlines are converted to spaces. > > Is there any means to override this in the XML parser? I also figure that > after the conversion process there is no means to 'recover' the newlines > that were stripped. No, it's a *mandatory* treatment for all attributes passed through an XML parser. You're asking to deviate from the standard, not a good idea IMHO > Oh dear! If anyone has any ideas how to get around this problem, I'd be > pleased to hear it. The best way to avoid those problems is to read the specs before designing a solution, it can't help now, it would sure help in the future. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@r... | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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