RE: Removing XML:space from output

You're right.  I had misunderstood the meaning and use of xml:space.
What I really wanted to do was to preserve the spacing *between* tags in
the output document.

When the output element of a stylesheet is set to method='xml' and
indent='yes', the folowing:

	<td><img src='example.gif' /></td>

becomes transformed into this:

	<td>
		<img src='example.gif' />
	</td>

...which introduces unwanted spacing.  Changing the method to "html"
would remove spacing between inline elements, but this would change my
XHTML page into HTML.  What I was wondering is if there was a way to use
"indent='yes'" to make the page readable, preserve the spacing between
inline elements (the way it does when the output method='html') and
still keep the page as XHTML.

(If you're wondering how I became so mixed up earlier, I tried using
xml:space='preserve' in my inline elements, leaving the output method as
'html', not 'xml'.  When I applied the tranformation, I thought that it
had done what I wanted, but it was just following the indentation rule
for 'html'.)

Thanks,
  Jason



-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:19 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Removing XML:space from output



> For example:
> 
> <td xml:space='preserve'><img src='example.gif' /></td>
> 
> And I get the following:

but why would you put xml:space at that position?
There is no space to preserve within the scope of that
attribuute as the td element contains no white space character data.


David

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