RE: xml:preserve space makes xsl:attribute fail in IE6

Neil,
The xml:space attribute should be used in the source XML doc:
	<a xml:space="preserve">

The XSL equivalent is a top-level element in the stylesheet that list a
whitespace-separated list of elements for which to preserve the space:
<xsl:preserve-space elements="a pre (etc)"/>

HTH,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Smith [mailto:neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:48 PM
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  xml:preserve space makes xsl:attribute fail in IE6


Hello -

I searched the archives for this string and got no results.
Maybe it's a known problem so I apologise if I have misunderstood :

For my xsl stylesheet, using

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0" xml:space="preserve"> in IE6, I had a problem.

I found that when using the xsl:attribute construct like this, no 
attributes were added to my anchor tag (by checking the HTML source)

         <a>
         <xsl:attribute name="href">
                 <xsl:value-of select="@start"/>
         </xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
         </a>

I used the space="preserve" to keep my HTML tidy and readable. Finally 
after trying a number of otherwise working examples, I removed 
space="preserve" from the stylesheet tag and presto, the attribute was 
added as expected.

I am transforming the XML source in javascript, setting up an XML object 
with MSXML2.DOMDocument ...

Questions : is there a known problem with preserve space on IE6 ?

Would this occur if I were to transform the XML server side (is it a 
javascript problem) ?

Is there any other way to keep the HTML output formatting as indented in 
the stylesheet ?

Thanks for any feedback.
Regards,
Neil Smith.






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