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[xsl] Significant whitespace in attribute values

2010-07-15 05:47:37
Hello friends,

I maybe tasked with XSL-transforming some XML into a publishable version, but I 
shuddered as soon as I saw the input (coming from a custom-built Web CMS). It 
is something like the following with significant line feeds in attribute values:

<items>
 <item name="address" data="
Company Name
Street Address
ZIP City
Country
" />
</items>

I have seen and dealt with line feeds in element content, but this time an 
alarm clock rang in my head. Am I right in my interpretation of the XML 
standard that attribute content must be normalized by a conforming XML parser 
and therefore it would never be possible to write an XSL to locate line feeds 
in attribute values?

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize

This would give me a strong and invincible reason to tell the CMS programmers 
to change their stuff.

- Michael

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