David,
On 12/20/2010 3:56 PM, David Lee wrote:
Some of both. The generated XSLT is quite complicated (or atleast obtuse)
and my debugger wasn't giving me much help where the "\n \n" was coming
from.
So I tossed in a
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
And made some other changes which I've forgotten and now its not happening
anymore ...
So I guess I'm beyond it now :)
xsl:strip-space="*" is okay if you never have any mixed content, but it
will let you down if you ever have source data like this:
<p>Here's some <i>italic</i> <b>and bold</b> together in a line</p>
The blank space between the </i> close tag and <b> open tag will be
stripped. And of course any time you have mixed content, you have the
potential for this.
Accordingly, it's wise to strip space only from elements that have
element content, not #PCDATA or the equivalent in your favorite schema
language, since by definition, whitespace occurring directly inside them
is only cosmetic.
(Of course if your XSLT is generated out of an adequate schema, you
should have that information available to you, at least in principle.
Note also that XSLT 2.0 processors are allowed to consult a schema at
tree-building time for warrant to strip insignificant whitespace like this.)
But the bit about PI's and comments breaking the text means I will still
need to revisit this.
Probably. It would be nice to avoid having to match on text nodes
altogether -- and interesting to see the use case that would require it.
Cheers,
Wendell
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