/ Andrew Kimball <akimball@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| 2. Your second example is actually by design.  When we parse an XML
| document, we strip all non-significant (no xml:space in scope) space
| by default and replace it with bit flags that mark where space existed
| at one time (this cuts down the memory footprint significantly).  When

The conditions for stripping space are not controlled solely by the
xml:space attribute. You must also check the xsl:preserve-space and
xsl:strip-space directives. In particular, for stylesheet documents,
xsl:text has preserve-space semantics.

A processor that does not faithfully reproduce the whitespace
characters in an xsl:text element is not a conforming xslt processor.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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                          | it?'--Solomon Ibn Gabirol


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