You've clearly not been listening to the list for the last week, where this
non-standard behaviour of Microsoft's XSLT processor has come under a lot of
discussion. It seems that when you invoke the transformation from an
xml-stylesheet processing instruction there is no way to get it to handle
whitespace in the way you would expect from reading the spec.

Michael Kay
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Reddie [mailto:smr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 November 2004 05:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Preserving space between elements
> 
> Hi All,
>  
> I'm using an xsl stylesheet to transform xml into html 
> (actually, I've got
> an xml file which references the xsl file, and IE does the 
> transform for
> display).
>  
> I wish to transform:
>     <row>text text text <literal>literal1</literal>
> <literal>literal2</literal> text text text</row>
> into:
>     text text text <i>literal1</i> <i>literal2</i> text text text
> so that there is a space between everything.  However, I end 
> up with no
> spaces between the two literals.  I'm not too surprised about 
> that, but I
> haven't been able to find a way to preserve it, short of 
> putting an &nbsp;
> in the xml source.  xsl:preserve-space hasn't worked for me.
>  
> Is this possible, and if so can anyone offer some pointers.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Steven