At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
But MSXSL strips whitespace only text nodes in absence
of strip-space and preserve-space instructions..
Oh, I'm glad you could find something to refute the evidence ... could you
please show me in your experimentation how MSXSL does not strip white-space
text nodes in the presence of an xsl:preserve-space instructions?
I posted last night that I was not able to get MSXSL to preserve
white-space text nodes even when using xsl:preserve-space:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200502/msg01063.html
... so I would like to compare my results to your stated conclusion.
At 2005-02-21 00:21 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
This is a very reasonable implementation.
Whitespace-only text nodes are not of much use to a
application!
Please review my post cited above for a real-world example of why my
customers and I need white-space-only text nodes and why I am having
problems with my customers' XML data in a Microsoft IE environment.
At 2005-02-21 02:59 -0800, Mukul Gandhi wrote:
As Mr. Ken Holman originally pointed, this is a
non-conformance.. I also now feel so!
Indeed ... passing off the "problem" to the XML Processor in the XSLT
processor does not exonerate the "XSLT Transformation Environment" from
being non-conformant. I have a publishing problem in that I've been asked
by my customers to present their data in a distributed IE browser
environment, and in one case where up to 50,000 families in one State in
the US are going to be browsing XML results, how can I give the
presentation that I need for the mixed content?
Dimitre said, there is a "preserveWhiteSpace"
property of IXMLDOMDocument.. But this I feel, is at
an API level..., which I feel does not ensure
conformance on this issue!
I agree, which prompted my post asking if anyone knew how to trigger this
in the browser environment.
I hope this discussion has helped people understand the issue and answer
the original question posted.
.......................... Ken
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