When you want to include literal text in the output, it's always best to
enclose it like this:

<xsl:text>#</xsl:text>

Otherwise any whitespace adjacent to the text is treated as significant.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay [mailto:rao_vij@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 February 2007 18:49
> To: XslList
> Subject:  xsl:attribute introducing a lot of whitespace
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using xsl:attribute to generate href links .Here is my 
> code. The xml is a simple juicers and then multiple juicer 
> with various attributes. I need to create bookmark type links 
> within the same page.
> 
>       <xsl:variable name="namevar" select="name"/>
>          <td>
>           <a>
>            <xsl:attribute name="href">
>             #<xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_desc
>            </xsl:attribute> 
>            <xsl:attribute name="name">
>             <xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_cost
>            </xsl:attribute>
>      <xsl:value-of select = "name"/>           
>           </a>
>         </td>
> 
> Here is where the above link would point to
> 
>           <a>
>            <xsl:attribute name="href">
>             #<xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' 
> ','_')"/>_cost           
>            </xsl:attribute> 
>            <xsl:attribute name="name">
>             <xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_desc
>            </xsl:attribute>
>            <xsl:value-of select = "name"/>
>           </a>
> 
> 
> I see that the generated html from the browser produces a lot 
> of whitespace. This is what I see in the generated source and 
> because of the whitespace the links don't work. 
> 
> <td><a href="
>             #OJ_Home_Juicer_desc
>            " name="OJ_Home_Juicer_cost
>            ">OJ Home Juicer</a></td>
> <td>
> 
> When I strip the white space and bring it in one line in the 
> html and then open and click the links it works fine.
> 
> How can I make this work?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> VJ
> 
> 
>  
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