Hi Colin,
  This Schema fragment says that declarations are
optional (which means that xsl:strip-space and
xsl:preserve-space are also optional). It does not
says anything about rules for stripping white space
text nodes(which is the topic of discussion).

Regards,
Mukul

--- Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>>> "Mukul" == Mukul Gandhi
> <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>     Mukul> It gives an impression, xsl:strip-space
> and
>     Mukul> xsl:preserve-space declarations are
> required..
> 
> I don't get that impression.
> 
> But for total non-ambiguity, look at the XML Schema
> for stylesheets. We
> have:
> 
> <xs:element name="transform">
>   <xs:complexType>
>     <xs:complexContent>
>       <xs:extension
> base="xsl:transform-element-base-type">
>         <xs:sequence>
>           <xs:element ref="xsl:import" minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
>           <xs:choice minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="unbounded">
>             <xs:element ref="xsl:declaration"/>
>             <xs:element ref="xsl:variable"/>
>             <xs:element ref="xsl:param"/>           
>   
>             <xs:any namespace="##other"
> processContents="lax"/> <!-- weaker than XSLT 1.0
> -->
>           </xs:choice>
>         </xs:sequence>
>         <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:ID"/>
>         <xs:attribute name="default-validation"
> type="xsl:validation-strip-or-preserve"
> default="strip"/>
>         <xs:attribute name="input-type-annotations"
> type="xsl:input-type-annotations-type"
> default="unspecified"/>
>       </xs:extension>
>     </xs:complexContent>
>   </xs:complexType>
> </xs:element>
> 
> Note the minOccurs="0" on the choice which allows
> xsl:declaration -
> i.e. NO declarations are compulsory. And as
> xsl:strip-space and
> xsl:preserve-space are declarations, they are not
> required.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire




		
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