There are several ways you could fix this problem.
First, you could switch indentation off entirely (indent="no").
Secondly, you could use schema-awareness on the output side (that is,
validate the output against a schema). If you do this, Saxon will not
add whitespace within an element that has a mixed-content content model.
Validation of course needs Saxon-EE.
Thirdly, you could use the suppress-indentation xsl:output parameter.
This was introduced as a Saxon extension (saxon:suppress-indentation)
and has found its way into the XSLT 3.0 specification. Either way, you
will need Saxon-PE or higher.
Note that the fact that the bold element is empty has nothing to do with
it; the indentation will occur for any start tag unless it is suppressed.
I assume that you're not complaining about the translation of
<bold></bold> to <bold/>?
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 15/01/2013 14:14, Raymond Lillibridge wrote:
List members,
Due to some batch processing, some of my input XML may have empty elements.
Here is some sample XML:
<level1>
<para> Here is some text inside a para tag. <bold></bold> Note that the 'bold' element
before the word Note is empty. I would like it to stay that way without the insertion of a
newline.</para> </level1>
When I transform this XML, using Saxon 9.4, the <bold></bold> element is
getting converted similar to the following:
<level1>
<para> Here is some text inside a para tag.
<bold/> Note that the 'bold' element before the word Note is empty. I would like
it to stay that way.</para> </level1>
The Problem:
Due to further batch processing needs, I do not want the insertion of a newline
before the <bold/> element, which is being created after running an XSLT
transformation on the sample XML above. (XMLSpy does not insert the newline, by the
way, but I want to use Saxon for my transformation.) In my xsl file I do not have an
explicit template match for the 'bold' element.
My XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
xmlns:mcc="http://www.municode.com/xslt";>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<!-- To Get: {$InputDocPath} -->
<xsl:include href="./MCC_LIB.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:result-document href="{$InputDocPath}/Book_ALL.xml">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
</xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:element name="book">
<xsl:element name="bookinfo">
<xsl:element name="title"></xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="subtitle"></xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="level1|level2|level3|level4|level5|level6">
<xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" /> </xsl:template>
<!-- CATCH-ALL ==================================================== -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy-of select="./node()" copy-namespaces="no" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Looking in the Saxon documentation, I was not able to find a switch to control the transformation
behavior that changes the <bold></bold> to (newline)<bold/>.
I'd rather not use XMLSpy since all my other batch transformations are using
Saxon.
If there is a configuration switch for Saxon, could someone direct me where I
may learn about it.
Or, would it be more practical to write a template to remove the "empty"
<bold></bold> element, or better yet, remove all empty elements? I don't know how this
would be written, and would appreciate any insights someone may offer.
Kind regards,
Raymond Lillibridge
Sr. Software Engineer
rlillibridge(_at_)municode(_dot_)com
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