Are you sure you have set indent="no" in xsl:output? That's the only obvious
thing I can think of. Last time I helped a user with a whitespace problem I
eventually got them to show me the whole stylesheet and it turned out it
said xml:space="preserve" somewhere within it. That's just to illustrate
that it's quite hard to diagnose these problems when you can only see a
snippet.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Hunt [mailto:Cindy.Hunt@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 December 2007 20:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Elements within "as-is" environment misaligning
> 
> Hi-
> 
> I am experiencing problems when transforming sections of 
> "as-is" code. I have an element which contains a sample of 
> programming code within it.
> Within the code sample I have some additional elements I call 
> <codeFocus> which will highlight that part of the code when 
> it is formatted. During the XSL-FO transform, the alignment 
> around these <codeFocus> elements gets messed up. The first 
> one seems fine but then the 2nd one has an extra blank line 
> that appears before it starts and the start tag is shifted 
> over to the right (so it is no longer "as-is").
> 
> I am using a Saxon parser and version 1.0. I use Antenna 
> House for the FO formatting but the problem occurs before the 
> doc is formatted.
> 
> My XML input:
> <code>Dim obConnection As New ADODB.Connection
>     Dim obRecordset As New ADODB.Recordset
> 
>     <codeFocus>obConnection.Provider = "SAS.IOMProvider.1"</codeFocus>
>     <codeFocus>obConnection.Properties("Prompt") = 
> adPromptAlways</codeFocus>
>     obConnection.Open
> 
>     obRecordset.Open "sasuser.MyData", obConnection, 
> adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTableDirect
>     ' Operate on obRecordset.
> </code>
> 
> 
> My FO output (note the blank line between the 2 fo:inline and 
> how the 2nd one indents in now):
>                      <fo:block font-family="'Courier 
> Standard', 'monospace', 'Arial Unicode MS' " 
> font-size="8.5pt" font-stretch="90%"
> line-height="12pt" start-indent="93pt+15pt"
> linefeed-treatment="preserve" white-space-treatment="preserve"
> white-space-collapse="false" wrap-option="no-wrap" space-before="6pt"
> space-after="0pt">Dim obConnection As New ADODB.Connection
>     Dim obRecordset As New ADODB.Recordset
> 
>     <fo:inline background-color="rgb(235, 235, 235)" 
> padding-left="2pt"
> padding-right="2pt">obConnection.Provider = 
> "SAS.IOMProvider.1"</fo:inline>
>      
>                         <fo:inline background-color="rgb(235, 
> 235, 235)"
> padding-left="2pt" 
> padding-right="2pt">obConnection.Properties("Prompt")
> = adPromptAlways</fo:inline>
>     obConnection.Open
> 
>     obRecordset.Open "sasuser.MyData", obConnection, 
> adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTableDirect
>     ' Operate on obRecordset.
> </fo:block>
> 
> I did notice that if I type a letter before the 2nd 
> <codeFocus> element, it works fine and doesn't insert the 
> extra line or shift over.
> 
> I even tried defining my xsl:template on a line by itself as 
> not to get any carriage returns:
> 	<xsl:template match="codeFocus"><fo:inline 
> background-color="rgb(235, 235, 235)" padding-left="2pt"
> padding-right="2pt"><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:inline></xsl:template>
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas to prevent this from happening?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated,
> Cindy Hunt