Thank you, Martin, Michael, and Liam, for your replies! I understand now.
Best regards,
Wolfhart
On 22-02-21 19:33, Liam R. E. Quin liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org wrote:
On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 20:55 +0000, Wolfhart Totschnig
wolfhart(_dot_)totschnig(_at_)mail(_dot_)udp(_dot_)cl wrote:
So this is a Saxon-specific issue?
No. it's a difference between XSLT 1 and 2, and DTD-less vs. with a
DTD. The _only_ whitespace that can officially be dropped by an XML
parser is when a DTD is in use and the DYD says an elememt only has
elmeent children, not #PCDATA. oher schemas, such as W3C XSD or
RelaxNG, are processed _after_ the XML is parsed and such spaces have
been (or not been) dropped based on the DTD.
What is processor-dependent is ways to mitigate this when it's a
difficulty.
Note (there was another thread on this recently) that a language
defined in XML can say that white-space in certain context is ignored,
as happend when an XSLT stylesheet itself is read.
Liam
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