Examples of places where non-whitespace text is not allowed include:

* as a child of xsl:stylesheet (between two top-level elements)

* as a child of xsl:choose

* as a child of xsl:apply-templates

* before the first xsl:sort within an xsl:for-each

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Peters [mailto:flickrmeister@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 September 2007 14:05
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Re: "Non-whitespace text is not allowed in 
> this position in the stylesheet!" error
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> What does the "Non-whitespace text is not allowed in this 
> position in the stylesheet!" error mean? I've poked around in 
> the archives for this newsgroup and online in general, but 
> haven't found an explanation for the error, or examples 
> thereof. I'd be happy to provide my stylesheet, but if I 
> understand what could cause the error, maybe I could find the 
> issue myself. The stylesheet validates without any warnings.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> Mark Peters
> Senior Technical Writer
> Saba Software