Is the expected behaviour that the whitespace text nodes
are stripped
out in a document node constructed in a variable?
No, but it is expected that whitespace text nodes are removed from the
stylesheet while it is being compiled. If you want to generate whitespace
text nodes, use xsl:text or xsl:value-of.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
If it is, does
someone can point me out relevant parts of the recommendation?
Following is a simple test tested with Saxon 8.6.1:
~/drafts/fctx $ cat white-spaces.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:preserve-space elements="elem"/>
<xsl:variable name="var">
<elem>
<a/> <b/> bla <c/>
</elem>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$var/elem/(*|text())"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:text>Elem #</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
<xsl:text>: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:text>text #</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/>
<xsl:text>: [</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text>] </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
~/drafts/fctx $ saxon white-spaces.xsl white-spaces.xsl
Elem #1: a
Elem #2: b
text #3: [ bla ]
Elem #4: c
~/drafts/fctx $
Regards,
--drkm
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