Like others, I'm not sure what you mean by "leading spaces". But if you want
to reformat the XSLT, use

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:preserve-space elements="xsl:text"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

You might also want to output an extra newline before elements such as
xsl:template.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Giang [mailto:gdprg@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 August 2007 21:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  source XSL to output XSL but removing leading 
> spaces in the source XSL
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to XSL.  I was able to transform one XSL file 
> (source) to another XSL file (output) with the code below.  
> However, during the process, I was not able to remove any 
> leading space from the source XSL file.  Is there a way to do 
> this.  Thanks, Steven.
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                 version="1.0">
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="*">
> 		<xsl:copy>
> 			<xsl:for-each select="@*">
> 				<xsl:copy/>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 		</xsl:copy>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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