7.2 Creating Text
Creating Text
A template can also contain text nodes. Each text node in a
template remaining after whitespace has been stripped as specified in
[Whitespace Stripping] will create a text node with the same
string-value in the result tree. Adjacent text nodes in the result
tree are automatically merged.
Note that text is processed at the tree level. Thus, markup of
< in a template will be represented in the
stylesheet tree by a text node that includes the character
<. This will create a text node in the result tree
that contains a < character, which will be represented
by the markup < (or an equivalent character
reference) when the result tree is externalized as an XML document
(unless output escaping is disabled as described in [Disabling Output Escaping]).
<
text
disable-output-escaping=
>
<-- Content: -->
<
/text>
Literal data characters may also be wrapped in an
xsl:text element. This wrapping may change what
whitespace characters are stripped (see [Whitespace Stripping]) but
does not affect how the characters are handled by the XSLT processor
thereafter.
NOTE:
The xml:lang and xml:space
attributes are not treated specially by XSLT. In particular,
-
it is the responsibility of the stylesheet author explicitly
to generate any xml:lang or xml:space
attributes that are needed in the result;
-
specifying an xml:lang or xml:space
attribute on an element in the XSLT namespace will not cause any
xml:lang or xml:space attributes to appear
in the result.
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