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RE: Indent XML ouput from XSLT program?

• To: "'G. Ken Holman'" <gkholman@C...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Indent XML ouput from XSLT program?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:29:23 -0000
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> But note that the technical term used in XSLT 1.0 is that the 
> indentation has to be done "nicely".  There are no other guidelines 
> and each processor has its own interpretation of this highly 
> technical term.

Actually, there are guidelines: for HTML output the whitespace may only be
added so it does "not change how an HTML user agent would render the
output". So if you can see the extra whitespace on the browser screen, your
processor is non-conformant.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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