> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Shanks [mailto:contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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> So only Libxslt behaves as I would hope, but the others do not do
> anything against the rules.

Indeed. indent="yes" simply means that the processor *may* add additional
whitespace, nothing more.

> I just want to know how to wrap the q
> elements in a "dont-insert-whitespace" instruction.

<q><a href="..">Text</a></q> ?

Forget about that always appearing as you hope.

As a further illustration: as it happens your XSL code is the same as

<q>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@href != ''">
      <a href="{@href}">...</a>
    </xsl:when>
  ...
  </xsl:choose>
</q>

Would you agree that, in this case, it should be:
<q>
  <a href="...">...</a>
</q>
?

Suppose a processor performs the indentation of the result tree in a final
step, how is it supposed to distinguish between the results of your code and
those of the rewrite above?


HTH!

Greetz,

Andreas