Michael Kay wrote:

What XML parser and XSLT processor are you using?


I am using Altova's XML Spy Enterprise edition (version 2008 sp1) and using
its "Built-in XSLT Engine".

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"/>
> 
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> </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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