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Jamil TaylorSubject: Built-In Processor Handling CDATA Transforms Differently
Author: Jamil Taylor
Date: 01 Dec 2007 11:38 AM
I am using the latest version of Stylus Studio 2007 R2 Enterprise currently available for download. An issue I have just encountered is detailed below:

My XSLT 1.0 transformation outputs to HTML, and my HTML contains a table. When the cells for the table from my source XML are empty, the entire row is collapsed in the table. I do not wish for the table to appear this way, so I used the old HTML trick of adding  
Instead of this in my HTML output:

<td></td>

I have this:

<td>&nbsp;</td>

The issue I have encountered is that my HTML appears just the way I expect when using the Built-In XSL processor. The empty table cells contain no text and are not collapsed. If I use any other processor, the table cells contain the text &nbsp;

The portion of my XSL transformation contained within a template is below:

<xsl:for-each select="column">
<td>
<xsl:variable name="value"><xsl:value-of select="translate(self::node(),' ','')"/></xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length($value)=0"><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
</xsl:for-each>

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Jamil TaylorSubject: Built-In Processor Handling CDATA Transforms Differently
Author: Jamil Taylor
Date: 01 Dec 2007 12:55 PM
More on this--

I have discovered a way to get the desired output in all other processors BUT Built-In. That is to replace the line above to the following:

<xsl:when test="string-length($value)=0">&#160;</xsl:when>

When I use this, all processors except for Built-In now show an empty table row.

Built-In, however, now shows a collapsed table row.

Is this a bug?

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(Deleted User) Subject: Built-In Processor Handling CDATA Transforms Differently
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 06 Dec 2007 08:49 AM
Hi Jamil,
yes, it's a bug of the built-in processor; the &nbsp; will appear if there is other non-whitespace text to be printed.

Alberto

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Jamil TaylorSubject: Built-In Processor Handling CDATA Transforms Differently
Author: Jamil Taylor
Date: 07 Dec 2007 07:34 AM
Originally Posted: 07 Dec 2007 07:31 AM
Thank you for investigating this.

I am not sure what 'Built-in' in the name of the processor actually refers to. Does this mean that your team owns the source code for this processor and is able to correct the issue? I thought I read something about the code being used from another open source project or something.

This is the first issue I have found with the Built-in processor. Now it seems that almost every processor within Stylus Studio has a different problem (there's two more I can try still).

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(Deleted User) Subject: Built-In Processor Handling CDATA Transforms Differently
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 11 Dec 2007 06:22 AM
Hi Jamil,
the 'built-in' XSLT processor is a processor we wrote in house; on the other hand, the 'built-in' XML validation processor is the open source Xerces-C++ XML parser.
As for each XSLT processor behaving in different ways... that's the beauty of having multiple processors inside Stylus Studio: so you can test your stylesheet against the specific processor you are going to use when deploying your stylesheet.

Hope this helps,
Alberto

 
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