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RE: method='text' ... whitespace problems

2002-11-19 02:14:11
A newline in an XML document is normalized by the XML parser to x0A. The
spec for the text output method says nothing about how the x0A will be
serialized; I think a literal reading suggests it should be output as
x0A, though I don't think one could quarrel with a processor that used
the platform-specific line ending sequence (i.e., x0D0A on Windows). If
you want to control this, I think you will have to use character
references in your stylesheet, to prevent the XML parser normalizing
them, and you will need to include your own logic (e.g. a stylesheet
parameter) to decide whether to output x0A or x0D0A.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com 

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Subject: [xsl] method='text' ... whitespace problems


I'm having fun and games generating some plain text output.


Requirement is to produce something akin to 

[begin label: ]

  content
  content
  etc

[end label]

I.e. each 'block' is seperated by one newline
from its predecessor, and has one newline
between the block start ([ .... ] )
and block end [end ....]

I really don't know if the user wants to process on *nix
or win32, hence I have

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY nl "<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>">
<!ENTITY indent "<xsl:text>  </xsl:text>">
]>

The indent is not giving any problems, but the newline 
certainly is. I'm beginning to suspect its the viewer I'm 
using (as with encoding issues).


Typically I'm using

<xsl:template match="element">
&nl;[begin thisLabel: ]
<xsl:apply-templates/>
[end thisLabel]
</xsl:template>


which is not producing what I expect. 

I'm looking for an explanation of what happens with 
output='text', within a template, and for suggestions as to a 
definition of the nl entity which might suit either/both 
win32 + *nix environs.


TIA, DaveP



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