i've tried with just copying the XHTML into the xslt:stylesheet and it won't
  work (won't display correct because of missing spaces at the end of some
  nodes's content)
  i've tried fidling around with preserve-space and it wouldn't work with the
  XHTML "pasted" into the Stylesheet.


post a ___small__ complee example that people can run, and say what
output you want and what you get.

David

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