This seems to be a problem with the HTML indentation algorithm in your
chosen processor. You need to tell us which processor you are using. There's
probably not much you can do about it, apart from setting indent="no". You
might be able to get away with putting the comment in an otherwise empty
<span/> element.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Babos, Andras [mailto:ababos(_at_)Graphisoft(_dot_)hu]
Sent: 02 November 2004 15:31
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] inserting HTML comments
Hi All,
I seem to have a problem with inserting HTML comments in the
HTML output
of an
XSL transformation.
The problem description is as follows:
1. I have an XML file from which I generate the HTML output.
(source.xml)
2. In the XSL file I have a template which contains something
like this:
<PRE>
<B>
<xsl:text>some text node </xsl:text>
</B>
<xsl:call-template name="insert-anchor">
<xsl:with-param name="anchor" select="someNode"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</PRE>
3. and the insert-anchor template looks something like:
<xsl:template name="insert-anchor">
<xsl:comment> This is a comment </xsl:comment>
<A>
<xsl:attribute name="HREF">
<xsl:value-of select="concat (string (someNode), '.html')"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="string (someNode)"/>
</A>
</xsl:template>
4. I'd expect the output to look like this:
<PRE><B>some text node </B><!-- This is a comment --><A
HREF="value-of-someNode.html">value-of-someNode</A></PRE>
5. but instead I get this:
<PRE>
<B>some text node </B>
<!-- This is a comment -->
<A HREF="value-of-someNode.html">value-of-someNode</A>
</PRE>
6. However, if I don't insert the <B> tags around the text node, I get
this:
<PRE>some text node <!-- This is a comment --><A
HREF="value-of-someNode.html">value-of-someNode</A></PRE>
What I need is the comment placed _right before_ the anchor
tag without
any
kind of whitespace inbetween (and of course no whitespace
inserted into
a <PRE>
tag at all).
Some more background info:
1. I'm using Xalan-C 1.8 with Xerces-C 2.5.0 (Windows).
2. I do have the xsl:output element set to html and indent="yes", but
even if I
turn off the indentation, the problem persists.
3. Of course my original templates are somewhat more comlicated than
these, but
I think the whole problem boils down to the mentioned parts. If you
think it
may help I can post a more detailed template.
Questions:
1. Is this behaviour XSL inherent or XSL processor dependant?
2. If it is the former, then how could I achieve what I'm
trying to do?
TIA:
Andras Babos.
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