> The "solution" to the problem is either:
> 
> a) tell the Microsoft parser not strip the whitespace only text nodes
> 
> or
> 
> b) be more explicit in the apply-templates call to only 
> process elements eg <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>

or (c) tell all processors that you aren't interested in the whitespace by
using <xsl;strip-space elements="*"/>

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