I believe it's true that the AltovaXML processor always strips whitespace
nodes (or calls the MSXML parser in a way that strips them) and I'm not
aware of any way of changing this.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 September 2008 09:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space (XSLT 2.0)
> 
>  
> 
> What XML parser and XSLT processor are you using?
> 
> 
> Just for curiosity Michael, is this related with XSLT 
> processor or there is error in my code.
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> Pankaj
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 23 September 2008 23:52
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  Xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space (XSLT 2.0)
> > 
> > 
> > In my stylesheet, I am stripping all the spaces, new line character 
> > while using <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> which works 
> perfectly as 
> > desired.
> > 
> > But now I've come across the requirement where I need to preserve 
> > spaces between the tags in few specific elements generally the 
> > punctuations(see below example) I tried to use the 
> > <xsl:preserve-space> to sort out this issue but doesn't seems to be 
> > working and "xsl:strip-space" seems to overcoming the effect of 
> > "xsl:preserve-space" effects. Can we use both to get their 
> respective 
> > effects or simply they cannot be used together?
> > 
> > Below is how they looks in my stylesheet:
> > 
> > Snippet
> > =======
> > 
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
> > xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> > xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">
> > 
> > <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> > 
> > <xsl:preserve-space elements="element1 element2"/>
> > 
> > <xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" indent="no" media-type="text/xml"
> > method="xml"/>
> > 
> > --------------
> > --------------
> > --------------
> > --------------
> > --------------
> > 
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > 
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > <element1><surname>Dajnoki</surname>, <givenname>K.</givenname>
> > (<year>2002</year>) <article-title>XXXXX YYYY</article-title>.
> > <journal-title>ZZZZZZ XXXX</journal-title> 
> > <first-page>43</first-page>&ndash;<last-page>46</last-page>.</
> > element1>
> > 
> > Note: Spaces between the tags with any punctuation appears 
> correctly 
> > (like in <surname>Dajnoki</surname>,
> > <givenname>K.</givenname>)  but fails in case of a single space 
> > between tags > < (for instance in </journal-title> <first-page> and 
> > results into the </journal-title><first-page> )
> > 
> > 
> > Below is how I have defined template for "element1"
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="element1">
> >     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> > Any suggestion would be an immense help.
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Pankaj Chaturvedi
> > 
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