Re: method='text' ... whitespace problems

Typically I'm using

<xsl:template match="element">
&nl;[begin thisLabel: ]





well you've got two newlines there, one after the > and one inside the
entity ref. unless you really want two newlines it would be simpler to
go


<xsl:template match="element">
[begin thisLabel: ]


XSLT1 is delightfully quiet about newlines in text output (XSLT2 is more
explict and usefully states that #10 characters will, as in xml output, 
produce a system specific line end).

However xslt1 is silent so if you are on dos and want to generate a crnl
pair then you probably have to use
<xsl:text>&#10;&#13;</xsl:text>
as your 
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
is equivalent to
<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
even if the file has dos line ends as teh xml parser normalises all line
endings to #10 on the way in.

The xslt2 wording allows the text serialiser to write out
<xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
as a #10 #13 pair if it is on DOS but I don't think teh XSLT1 wording
really lets the system do that.


David

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