> I am trying to open the output using Internet Explorer and that's when
> the whitespace gets truncated.  The result is just 'Mike' without any
> whitespace in the front of it. 

That's required by the HTML specification: white space after tags is
always ignored in HTML.

But you said  you were doing

<xsl:output method="text" 

If you are generating a text file then as long as you tell IE that it is
text/plain not text/html it should just show the text verbatim.



David

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