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RE: [xsl] xsl:attribute introducing a lot of whitespace

2007-02-27 13:02:28
When you want to include literal text in the output, it's always best to
enclose it like this:

<xsl:text>#</xsl:text>

Otherwise any whitespace adjacent to the text is treated as significant.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vijay [mailto:rao_vij(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 27 February 2007 18:49
To: XslList
Subject: [xsl] xsl:attribute introducing a lot of whitespace

Hello,

I am using xsl:attribute to generate href links .Here is my 
code. The xml is a simple juicers and then multiple juicer 
with various attributes. I need to create bookmark type links 
within the same page.

      <xsl:variable name="namevar" select="name"/>
         <td>
          <a>
           <xsl:attribute name="href">
            #<xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_desc
           </xsl:attribute> 
           <xsl:attribute name="name">
            <xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_cost
           </xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:value-of select = "name"/>           
          </a>
        </td>

Here is where the above link would point to

          <a>
           <xsl:attribute name="href">
            #<xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' 
','_')"/>_cost           
           </xsl:attribute> 
           <xsl:attribute name="name">
            <xsl:value-of select="translate($namevar,' ','_')"/>_desc
           </xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:value-of select = "name"/>
          </a>


I see that the generated html from the browser produces a lot 
of whitespace. This is what I see in the generated source and 
because of the whitespace the links don't work. 

<td><a href="
            #OJ_Home_Juicer_desc
           " name="OJ_Home_Juicer_cost
           ">OJ Home Juicer</a></td>
<td>

When I strip the white space and bring it in one line in the 
html and then open and click the links it works fine.

How can I make this work?

Thanks in advance
VJ


 
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