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 I can't decide it this is a problem with my interpretation of the spec, or something with XT. I've got a problem cause by the way that both IE & Netscape interpret spaces in their input -- if they see spaces at certain points in their input they will make gaps larger. Whilst this particular example shows a problem with Netscape, I *could* have demonstrated a problem with IE - its just not quite to simple to show. Take this stylesheet: ----- <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" result-ns="" indent-result="no" > <xsl:template match="/doc"> <table> <xsl:for-each select="item"> <tr><td>*</td><td><xsl:value-of select="text()"/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="1" height="4"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="4"/></td></tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> ----- and this input file: ----- <doc> <item>foo</item> <item>bar</item> </doc> ----- The output is simple: ----- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <table> <tr> <td>*</td> <td>foo</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="1" height="4"> <spacer type="block" width="1" height="4"></spacer> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>*</td> <td>bar</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="1" height="4"> <spacer type="block" width="1" height="4"></spacer> </td> </tr> </table> ----- Note that XT has chosen to add whitespace (carriage returns) -- despite my instruction not to (in the stylesheet) If you compare the results of loading this file into Netscape (I've tried some v4 & v5 versions) with the version below you will see a difference in the layout. Unfortunately, this causes a problem! Ignoring the browser layout issue, is the fact that the file above doesn't look the one below a problem with my understanding, or with XT's whitespace handling ? ----- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <table> <tr><td>*</td><td>foo</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="1" height="4"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="4"></td></tr> <tr><td>*</td><td>bar</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" width="1" height="4"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="4"></td></tr> </table> ----- Alistair XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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