Sorry Mr. Holman, I have still not responded to your
long mail
(http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200502/msg01063.html).
You have raised many important points. I am studying
MSXSL behaviour, and would respond soon!

Regards,
Mukul

--- "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> >But MSXSL strips whitespace only text nodes in
> absence
> >of strip-space and preserve-space instructions..
> 
> Oh, I'm glad you could find something to refute the
> evidence ... could you 
> please show me in your experimentation how MSXSL
> does not strip white-space 
> text nodes in the presence of an xsl:preserve-space
> instructions?
> 
> I posted last night that I was not able to get MSXSL
> to preserve 
> white-space text nodes even when using
> xsl:preserve-space:
> 
>   
>
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200502/msg01063.html
> 
> ... so I would like to compare my results to your
> stated conclusion.
> 
> At 2005-02-21 00:21 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> >This is a very reasonable implementation.
> >Whitespace-only text nodes are not of much use to a
> >application!
> 
> Please review my post cited above for a real-world
> example of why my 
> customers and I need white-space-only text nodes and
> why I am having 
> problems with my customers' XML data in a Microsoft
> IE environment.
> 
> At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> >As Mr. Ken Holman originally pointed, this is a
> >non-conformance.. I also now feel so!
> 
> Indeed ... passing off the "problem" to the XML
> Processor in the XSLT 
> processor does not exonerate the "XSLT
> Transformation Environment" from 
> being non-conformant.  I have a publishing problem
> in that I've been asked 
> by my customers to present their data in a
> distributed IE browser 
> environment, and in one case where up to 50,000
> families in one State in 
> the US are going to be browsing XML results, how can
> I give the 
> presentation that I need for the mixed content?
> 
> >Dimitre said,  there is a "preserveWhiteSpace"
> >property of IXMLDOMDocument.. But this I feel, is
> at
> >an API level..., which I feel does not ensure
> >conformance on this issue!
> 
> I agree, which prompted my post asking if anyone
> knew how to trigger this 
> in the browser environment.
> 
> I hope this discussion has helped people understand
> the issue and answer 
> the original question posted.
> 
> .......................... Ken
> 
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