Ken,

Absolutely spot on.  I'm immensely grateful for your help yet again.

Thanks,

Mark Williams

----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: Re:  White space


> At 2004-01-14 19:35 +0000, Mark Williams wrote:
> >My xsl template is in fact structured as you suggest....
>
> Then I think I may know what is going on:  spaces between some elements in
> an XSL-FO file are significant while spaces between all elements (except
> <xsl:text>) in an XSLT file are not significant.
>
> >What I am looking for is a simple flag to set at the beginning of the xsl
> >template which will tell it to leave my white space alone.  I had, in
fact,
> >already tried preserve space previously with no effect, but I thought I
> >would give David's suggestion a go, specifically aimed at fo elements.
>
> Below is an example that I think demonstrates the functionality you need.
>
> >Do you have any ideas why this may not be working and what else I can
> >possibly try?
>
> Using xml:space="preserve".
>
> Note below:
>
>   (1) - the file "mark.fo" has spaces in the block that would be seen on a
> page.
>
>   (2) - the file "mark.xfo" simply wraps it in an XSLT template
>       - the spaces become meaningless as illustrated by running Saxon and
no
>         spaces are seen in the block in the result
>
>   (3) - the file "mark.ssl" uses xml:space="preserve" to keep the spaces
> significant
>       - the spaces are preserved as illustrated by running Saxon and
spaces are
>         seen in the block in the result
>
> I've had to use this in the past when writing stylesheets that write
> stylesheets that people need to look at.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> ............................. Ken
>
> T:\ftemp>type mark.fo
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
>        font-size="16pt">
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
>    <block>
>      <inline>This</inline> <inline>is</inline>
>      <inline>a</inline> <inline>test.</inline>
>    </block>
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
> </root>
>
> T:\ftemp>type mark.xfo
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
>        font-size="16pt">
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
>    <block>
>      <inline>This</inline> <inline>is</inline>
>      <inline>a</inline> <inline>test.</inline>
>    </block>
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
> </root>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> T:\ftemp>type mark.xsl
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:template match="/" xml:space="preserve">
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
>        font-size="16pt">
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
>    <block>
>      <inline>This</inline> <inline>is</inline>
>      <inline>a</inline> <inline>test.</inline>
>    </block>
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
> </root>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> T:\ftemp>saxon mark.xfo mark.xfo
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><root
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Fo
> rmat" font-size="16pt">
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
>
<block><inline>This</inline><inline>is</inline><inline>a</inline><inline>tes
t.
> </inline></block>
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
> </root>
> T:\ftemp>saxon mark.xsl mark.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" font-size="16pt">
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
>    <block>
>      <inline>This</inline> <inline>is</inline>
>      <inline>a</inline> <inline>test.</inline>
>    </block>
>    ...blah...blah...blah...
> </root>
>
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