That did it, thanks :)

mayo

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 05:59, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2004-05-28 18:44 -0700, Mayo wrote:
> >I've figured out how to generate doctype for the document, but whenever I 
> >introduce
> >
> >doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> >doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
> >
> >into <xsl:output> element, the spacing in the output gets really weird. I 
> >know there is <xsl:strip-space>, but that still doesn't fix things.
> >...
> >     <xsl:element name="b">
> >         <xsl:value-of select="'blarg'"/>
> >     </xsl:element>
> >...
> >     <p>xsl test1:
> >       <b>blarg
> ></b>
> 
> That looks to me like your XSLT processor is inferring indent="yes" for 
> <xsl:output>.  This messed me up when I was trying to abut images next to 
> each other without any space in between, yet the processor would put each 
> image on a new line, thus introducing the new-line sequence after each one.
> 
> I explicitly use <xsl:output indent="no"/> and while the resulting HTML 
> doesn't look great in a text editor, it looks just fine in a browser, which 
> is what is important.
> 
> As a result of my own experience, when I teach about indent= I advise my 
> students that it is fine for diagnostics but should always be indent="no" 
> for production purposes, even when using HTML.  In my case I would never 
> have been able to get the images to abut.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> .......................... Ken
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