Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
David Carlisle wrote:
<xsl:variable name="newline" select=" ' ' " /> Oops! (side note:) I tend to solve my own whitespace problems with character maps, so that I can use a private use character everywhere in my code. That way I do not need to think about the whitespace removal of the stylesheet: inside a stylesheet dtd: <!ENTITY newline "&#x0A;" > <!ENTITY newline_substitute "" > <!-- mapped to newline --> <!ENTITY nsub "&newline_substitute;" > <!-- alias --> the xslt: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet SYSTEM "../../xslt-common/dtd/webitor-transformation.dtd" > <xsl:stylesheet version = "2.0" xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > <xsl:character-map name="substitutes"> <xsl:output-character character="&newline_substitute;" string="&newline;"/> </xsl:character-map> <xsl:output use-character-map="substitutes" /> <xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select=" '⊄' " />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>In the example above there is no reason at all of course for using &nbsub; instead of unless for readability (but you could use &newline; too). However, when passing around variables, doing copy-of, value-of etc, or even a normalice-space, you can loose the newlines. This way you can preserve them more easily and, the better part, when I place an ⊄ anywhere, it will always be output (which is not so for ) There are other possibilities that have to do with linebreaking and proper indentation that are otherwise hard to achieve or may get lost in parameter passing as value-of instead of copy-of etc., but I am drifting too far away now from the OP's question.... (I wonder if this technique is used by others, too and for what purposes; I use similar tricks for easier handling of quote-escapes in source documents and outputting tab characters for indentation when normal indentation does not suffice) -- Abel Braaksma
|
