I have the same problem when storing XSLT documents in eXist-db.
Attribute normalization also kills whitespace there because the spec
says whitespace should be ignored in attribute values (and eXist-db
normalizes against the spec). Isn't it about time to change the spec in
this respect?
Pieter
On 28/07/2020 23:18, Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
wrote:
Hi list,
Like many of you, I assume, I use a version control system when
working on XSLT projects. I'm working together with multiple people,
and we run the code through an XML formatter before checking it in to
avoid formatting differences showing up in the diffs.
The problem is that, due to attribute value normalization, carriage
returns are removed from attribute nodes during XML parsing. When
using long XPath expressions (and this has become very common in XSLT
3, especially with higher order functions), which are split in
multiple lines, this results in huge single line outputs which are
impossible to read.
It seems any sort of XML processing will irreversibly transform the
whitespace, therefore I have to choose between:
- No formatting
- Formatting using non-XML tools?
- Finding a parser that bends the rules...
Have any of you experienced the same problem and did you find a solution?
Thanks.
Willem Van Lishout
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