Mr. Kay,

Thank you for your wealth of information!  First in your reply (below) and
also for your books.

Since the addition of the indent="no" did not correct the problem, I'm going
to do some data checking.  We've been using Saxon-EE 9.4 for quite some time
and it's been wonderful.  It just may be that there is something wrong with
the data.

Transforming <bold></bold> to </bold> is quite alright.

After some data checking and then some more XSLT testing, I'll keep the list
updated about my solution, &c.


Kind regards,

Raymond Lillibridge
Sr. Software Engineer
rlillibridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:04 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Saxon 9.4 <bold></bold> Transformed to (newline)</bold>
Problem

There are several ways you could fix this problem.

First, you could switch indentation off entirely (indent="no").

Secondly, you could use schema-awareness on the output side (that is, validate
the output against a schema). If you do this, Saxon will not add whitespace
within an element that has a mixed-content content model.
Validation of course needs Saxon-EE.

Thirdly, you could use the suppress-indentation xsl:output parameter.
This was introduced as a Saxon extension (saxon:suppress-indentation) and has
found its way into the XSLT 3.0 specification. Either way, you will need
Saxon-PE or higher.

Note that the fact that the bold element is empty has nothing to do with it;
the indentation will occur for any start tag unless it is suppressed.

I assume that you're not complaining about the translation of <bold></bold> to
<bold/>?

Michael Kay
Saxonica


On 15/01/2013 14:14, Raymond Lillibridge wrote:
> List members,
>
> Due to some batch processing, some of my input XML may have empty elements.
>
> Here is some sample XML:
> <level1>
> <para> Here is some text inside a para tag. <bold></bold> Note that
> the 'bold' element before the word Note is empty.  I would like it to
> stay that way without the insertion of a newline.</para> </level1>
>
>
> When I transform this XML, using Saxon 9.4, the <bold></bold> element is
getting converted similar to the following:
> <level1>
> <para> Here is some text inside a para tag.
>           <bold/> Note that the 'bold' element before the word Note is
> empty.  I would like it to stay that way.</para> </level1>
>
>
> The Problem:
> Due to further batch processing needs, I do not want the insertion of a
newline before the <bold/> element, which is being created after running an
XSLT transformation on the sample XML above.  (XMLSpy does not insert the
newline, by the way, but I want to use Saxon for my transformation.)  In my
xsl file I do not have an explicit template match for the 'bold' element.
>
> My XSL:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
> xmlns:mcc="http://www.municode.com/xslt">
>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
>
> <!-- To Get:  {$InputDocPath} -->
> <xsl:include href="./MCC_LIB.xsl"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:result-document href="{$InputDocPath}/Book_ALL.xml">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
> 	</xsl:result-document>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="book">
> 		<xsl:element name="book">
> 			<xsl:element name="bookinfo">
> 				<xsl:element name="title"></xsl:element>
> 				<xsl:element name="subtitle"></xsl:element>
> 			</xsl:element>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
> 		</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="level1|level2|level3|level4|level5|level6">
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" />
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <!-- CATCH-ALL ==================================================== -->
> 	<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> 		<xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" />
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> Looking in the Saxon documentation, I was not able to find a switch to
control the transformation behavior that changes the <bold></bold> to
(newline)<bold/>.
>
> I'd rather not use XMLSpy since all my other batch transformations are using
Saxon.
> If there is a configuration switch for Saxon, could someone direct me where
I may learn about it.
>
> Or, would it be more practical to write a template to remove the "empty"
<bold></bold> element, or better yet, remove all empty elements?  I don't know
how this would be written, and would appreciate any insights someone may
offer.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Raymond Lillibridge
> Sr. Software Engineer
> rlillibridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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