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Re: [xsl] Controlling Whitespace in IE

2006-05-04 11:39:33
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Spencer Tickner wrote:
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

I would try to use
<xsl:text xml:space="preserve"> </xsl:text>
That may does the trick.

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