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Joe SimsSubject: tabs converted to spaces
Author: Joe Sims
Date: 20 Jul 2005 01:26 PM
Originally Posted: 20 Jul 2005 01:22 PM
The problem I seem to be having is that when I run my transformation is that my tabs inside of my attribute values (which are vital since this is for an InfoPath Document) are begin translated in to spaces. I have tried tinkering with the tab setting within the options but to no prevail. I believe this problem may be routed in the tokenizing. I think there may not be a token for a tab only for a space, and thus when the tool reads whitespace it assumes it to be a space and thus my tabs become spaces. Any idea on how to maintain this whitespace other ways? Thanks in advance.
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(Deleted User) Subject: tabs converted to spaces
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 20 Jul 2005 03:39 PM
Hi Joe,
the problem is that XML mandates that the content of an attribute should be normalized to convert line feed, carriage return and tab characters into plain spaces (see http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#AVNormalize). So, if you really have to place tabs inside attributes, you should escape them as character entities (	)

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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Joe SimsSubject: tabs converted to spaces
Author: Joe Sims
Date: 20 Jul 2005 04:13 PM
Thank you replying to quickly but I just dont understand what you mean for me to do with the (	)? I need the tabs to be preserved in the element below (the value attribute) is it possible for you to show me what you mean?

<sox:Property name="Control Objective(s)" type="multiselect">
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:value-of select="sox:control/sox:Component/sox:Properties/sox:Property[1]/@value"/>
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(Deleted User) Subject: tabs converted to spaces
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 21 Jul 2005 04:19 AM
Hi Joe,
the code you write will correctly create an attribute with a value containing tabs, if they are present in the XML node you are selecting. The issue is when you load the generated XML using a parser: in that moment the tabs will be replaced by spaces, because this is what the XML specs mandate.
There are ways to make so that the XSL generates strings like '&#x9;' instead of tabs, but unfortunately when used inside attribute values they get further processed into '&amp;#x9;'.

Summarizing, I see only these workarounds:
1) don't place tabs into attribute values (e.g. use a text node)
2) post-process the XML to replace the tabs with the entity reference

Note: the issue would appear also for new line characters (CR and LF)

Hope this helps,
Alberto
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Joe SimsSubject: tabs converted to spaces
Author: Joe Sims
Date: 21 Jul 2005 09:09 AM
Yea helps a lot. Thanks!
   
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