Hi,
You could also have:
<xsl:variable name="generatedTextAfter" as="xs:string?"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
The deal is that directly inside that xsl:variable, a whitespace-only text
node in the XSLT is considered to be 'cosmetic' and dropped. So there is no
space to be placed into the result.
Adding xsl:text forces the text node, which is then cast to a string
following the @ as .
(What are those robots doing to my notation?)
Cheers, Wendell
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:07 AM Liam R. E. Quin
liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 02:14 +0000, Don Smith
dsmith_lockesmith(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com wrote:
1. Use different instructions for the output of the variable: value-
of, copy-of, and sequence2. Created the variables as both strings and
elements and even RTFs3. Tried a character map4. Tried an alternative
approach like using strings "#SPACE, #TAB, #NL, etc. I know that
would work but seems like it should be unnecessary?
In every case the white space only variable content gets stripped
out. How can such content be output?
I tried,
<xsl:variable name="generatedTextAfter" as="xs:string?" select=" ' '
"/>
and got output.
The relevant text in the spec is this:
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#stylesheet-stripping
Liam
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