Re: Generating beautiful HTML Source Code

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Subject: Re: Generating beautiful HTML Source Code
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:30:16 -0400

Karl,

In other words, you are interested in taking responsibility for the serialization of HTML results yourself, not letting your built-in serializer make whatever its designers considered to be very attractive....

There are many ways to approach this. One simple one is to use

<?xsl:output indent="no"/>

plus careful use of the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space top-level elements, to make sure no unwanted whitespace gets into your result, and then run a second pass over your (X)HTML to insert whitespace only where you want it -- this pass can create either XHTML or HTML 4.0.

Whitespace can be tricky since unwanted whitespace can come from any of:

a. the source document (if you didn't strip it, it's in your XPath tree and may be getting copied) b. the stylesheet (if you're not careful and don't understand how whitespace in the stylesheet works) c. the serializer (if you have indent="yes", the serializer is allowed to do this)

Getting nicely formatted output requires managing all three.

At 10:56 AM 10/15/2003, you wrote:

Currently, my HTML source code is a random "SPLAT" of code.... and where I
have attempted to add a linebreak with &#10; and/or &#13; it is usually
unsuccseful, as well, it seems my preserve-space elements are ignored.  I
only seem to be able to get a line break when I do:

<xsl:text>

<xsl:text>

Are you using MSXML? It has an ... "issue" ... with whitespace-only text nodes. :->

Cheers,
Wendell

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Re: Generating beautiful HTML Source Code, (continued)
- andrew . curry - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:01:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Jim Nachlin - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:34:24 -0400 (EDT)
  - Karl J. Stubsjoen - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
    - M. David Peterson - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
- Wendell Piez - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:20:03 -0400 (EDT) <=
  - Karl J. Stubsjoen - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:26:16 -0400 (EDT)
    - Wendell Piez - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Martinez, Brian - Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:16:06 -0400 (EDT)

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