Subject: RE: Controlling Whitespace in IE
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 19:08:04 +0100
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Sadly, IE throws the space away before invoking the XSLT processor.
Complaining to Microsoft is unlikely to do much good.
If you invoke the transformation from Javascript rather than via the
<?xml-stylesheet?> processing instructions, there are magic incantations
that cause the whitespace to be preserved.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Tickner [mailto:spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 May 2006 18:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Controlling Whitespace in IE
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> I'm having an issue with ie's translation of my xml document.
> With this document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?> <root>
> <sentencetext>blah <def>blah blah</def> blah blah
> <def>foo</def> <def>bar</def>.</sentencetext> </root>
>
> the foo and the bar are stuck together. I am using this
> stylesheet to try and force them apart:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output media-type="html"/>
>
> <xsl:variable name="cr"><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text></xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <html>
> <body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="sentencetext">
> <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p><xsl:value-of
> select="$cr"/> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="def">
> <a class="definition"
> href="something"><em><xsl:apply-templates/></em></a>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="text()">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.) = ''"><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text></xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of
> select="."/></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> IE does not seem to be translating the normalize-space
> funtion correctly.
>
> For instance, when I put a 1 before the <xsl:text>
> </xsl:text> in firefox I get 1's exactly where I would expect
> them and foo and bar are seperated by a space. However in IE,
> no 1's appear. Does anybody know of a hack or work around for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spencer
> Victoria BC, Canada
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