> white space nodes in the stylesheet are stripped (unless they are in
> xsl:text) perhaps that's what is confusing you?
> 
> so
> 
> <xsl:value-of.../>
>   <xsl:value-of.../>
>     <xsl:value-of.../>
> 
> 
> can be indented as I like without putting any white space in the output
> but
> 
> <xsl:value-of.../>,
>   <xsl:value-of.../>,
>     <xsl:value-of.../>,
> 
> all the white space will go to the output exactly as input.

ah, got it.

is there a global "output" for a stylesheet one can set that says "preserve
whitespace" etc?

and, actually, does that mean that I have to nest xsl:text in all of my
template calls?

<xsl:template stuff>
    <xsl:text>


    </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

? (which would be bad from my perspective, because I can see maybe wanting
to "globally" turn on whitespace preservation for my stylesheets if I was
debugging html output or something...

so it would be convenient to have a switch in the stylesheet tag that allows
me to globally say:
    -preserve my whitespace
    -nuke the whitespace and give me a clean stream

hopefully that exists...?

_alex





--
alex black, ceo
enigma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the turing studio, inc.
http://www.turingstudio.com

vox+510.666.0074
fax+510.666.0093



 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list