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 Greg Faron wrote:
> Just to chime in, I've had issues with this using XML Spy 4.4 to convert
> files (via MSXML 4). First, any occurrence of   in the XSL Stylesheet
> gets replaced with just a space character during processing, so a
> stylesheet line of
> <td> </td>
> creates the output
> <td> </td>
I am pretty certain that XML Spy actually creates <td>?</td>. The encoded
no-break space character is in between the tags. In this email I used byte
0xA0 because that's how you represent no-break space directly in iso-8859-1.
Of course the two different kinds of spaces are indistinguishable visually.
If I were making an effort to stick to us-ascii in this email, there's no byte
for no-break space, so I'd have to resort to using a character reference or
entity reference.
> This poses an issue within XML Spy since the auto-indent editing feature
> will truncate the latter to <td/>
IIRC, in some function somewhere in Windows, U+00A0 is considered to be
whitespace. XML Spy's indenter probably relies on such a function where it
shouldn't. So this is probably where the bug is in XML Spy.
> BTW, it's also a shame that MSXML ignores the "indent" attribute of
> xsl:output, but that's something else altogether.
Huh? Given this as test.xsl:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>test</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<td>hello world</td>
<td>goodbye cruel world</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
And invoking MSXML via msxsl.exe:
C:\dev>msxsl \temp\test.xsl \temp\test.xsl
<html><head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>test</title></head><body><h1>test</h1><table><tr><td>hello
world</td><td>goodbye cruel world</td></tr></table></body></html>
...and after changing indent to "yes":
C:\dev>msxsl \temp\test.xsl \temp\test.xsl
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>test</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<td>hello world</td>
<td>goodbye cruel world</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
It looks like it is honoring the attribute to me. Perhaps you were expecting a
greater degree of indenting?
- Mike
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