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Re: [xsl] Significant whitespace in attribute values

2010-07-15 05:54:48
I would like to add that currently the XML is not accompanied by a DTD or XML 
Schema. It seems to me the attribute values are then treated as CDATA.

- Michael

Am 15.07.2010 um 12:47 schrieb Michael Müller-Hillebrand:

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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