Karl,
In other words, you are interested in taking responsibility for the
serialization of HTML results yourself, not letting your built-in
serializer make whatever its designers considered to be very attractive....
There are many ways to approach this. One simple one is to use
<?xsl:output indent="no"/>
plus careful use of the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space top-level
elements, to make sure no unwanted whitespace gets into your result, and
then run a second pass over your (X)HTML to insert whitespace only where
you want it -- this pass can create either XHTML or HTML 4.0.
Whitespace can be tricky since unwanted whitespace can come from any of:
a. the source document (if you didn't strip it, it's in your XPath tree and
may be getting copied)
b. the stylesheet (if you're not careful and don't understand how
whitespace in the stylesheet works)
c. the serializer (if you have indent="yes", the serializer is allowed to
do this)
Getting nicely formatted output requires managing all three.
At 10:56 AM 10/15/2003, you wrote:
Currently, my HTML source code is a random "SPLAT" of code.... and where I
have attempted to add a linebreak with and/or it is usually
unsuccseful, as well, it seems my preserve-space elements are ignored. I
only seem to be able to get a line break when I do:
<xsl:text>
<xsl:text>
Are you using MSXML? It has an ... "issue" ... with whitespace-only text
nodes. :->
Cheers,
Wendell
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