Sadly, IE throws the space away before invoking the XSLT processor.
Complaining to Microsoft is unlikely to do much good.
If you invoke the transformation from Javascript rather than via the
<?xml-stylesheet?> processing instructions, there are magic incantations
that cause the whitespace to be preserved.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Tickner [mailto:spencertickner(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 04 May 2006 18:55
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Controlling Whitespace in IE
Hi Everyone,
Thanks in advance for the help.
I'm having an issue with ie's translation of my xml document.
With this document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?> <root>
<sentencetext>blah <def>blah blah</def> blah blah
<def>foo</def> <def>bar</def>.</sentencetext> </root>
the foo and the bar are stuck together. I am using this
stylesheet to try and force them apart:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output media-type="html"/>
<xsl:variable name="cr"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="sentencetext">
<p><xsl:apply-templates/></p><xsl:value-of
select="$cr"/> </xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="def">
<a class="definition"
href="something"><em><xsl:apply-templates/></em></a>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="normalize-space(.) = ''"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of
select="."/></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
IE does not seem to be translating the normalize-space
funtion correctly.
For instance, when I put a 1 before the <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> in firefox I get 1's exactly where I would expect
them and foo and bar are seperated by a space. However in IE,
no 1's appear. Does anybody know of a hack or work around for this.
Thanks,
Spencer
Victoria BC, Canada
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