For my xsl stylesheet, using
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0" xml:space="preserve"> in IE6, I had a problem.
I found that when using the xsl:attribute construct like this, no
attributes were added to my anchor tag (by checking the HTML source)
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="@start"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</a>
Because you have said that whitespace is significant, the spaces between
the <a> and the <xsl:attribute> are treated as a text node to be added
as a child of the <a> element in the result tree. It's an error to try
to add an attribute to an element after adding a text node.
Implementations are allowed to either report the error, or ignore the
offending attribute node. It seems MSXML is doing the latter.
Using xml:space="preserve" in a stylesheet is not something I recommend,
unless the relevant section of the stylesheet is pure data that you want
to copy to the result tree.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com
I used the space="preserve" to keep my HTML tidy and
readable. Finally
after trying a number of otherwise working examples, I removed
space="preserve" from the stylesheet tag and presto, the
attribute was
added as expected.
I am transforming the XML source in javascript, setting up an
XML object
with MSXML2.DOMDocument ...
Questions : is there a known problem with preserve space on IE6 ?
Would this occur if I were to transform the XML server side (is it a
javascript problem) ?
Is there any other way to keep the HTML output formatting as
indented in
the stylesheet ?
Thanks for any feedback.
Regards,
Neil Smith.
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