Thanks David for your comments.. I am happy with xsl:strip-space
elements="*". It works for me.
Regards,
Mukul
On 7/20/05, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
The results are as expected. It seems deep-equal considers white
spaces significant. Is there any way I can do deep equals comparison
ignoring the white spaces?
The WG have had many comments on the official commentlist to teh efect
taht deep-equal is essentially useless (and has been inconsistently, and
differently, defined in every draft but the current one, as far as I can
rememeber). the problem is that in any real case people don't want a
fixed deep-equals they need to tune whetherwhite space or comments or
attribute or whatever are considered significant.
That said, you have a few choices.
a)
add xsl:strip-space elements="*" so that much of the white space in your
input is ignored
or
b)
before using deep-equal process the nodes (into a variable) with a mode
that normalizes space (ie do a modified identity trasform with a special
template matching text().
or
c)
use a collation that considers white space insignificant. (I'm not sure
what collations saxon currently offers)
or
d)
ignore deep-equal and write your own recursive function (this is likely
to be more efficient than (b) but less efficient than eitherr (a) or (c).
David
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