RE: How to trim leading and trailing spaces in xsl:at

Hi Mike,
  Where we must specify xml:space="preserve" attribute
(to preserve whitespace only text nodes in
stylesheet)?

Would it be at this tag -
<xsl:stylesheet xml:space="preserve" ...

Regards,
Mukul

--- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can write
> 
> <xsl:attribute name="x">
>   <xsl:value-of select="abc"/>
> </xsl:attribute>
> 
> Whitespace-only text nodes in a stylesheet are
> ignored, unless you specify
> xml:space="preserve" (which I wouldn't recommend).
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karr, David [mailto:david.karr@xxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 25 May 2005 18:41
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  How to trim leading and trailing
> spaces in 
> > xsl:attribute?
> > 
> > I have an "<xsl:attribute>" element in my
> stylesheet, and its value is
> > an "<xsl:value-of>" reference which then calls an
> XPATH function.  The
> > resulting single line is a little ugly.  I'd like
> to format 
> > the line so
> > it's a little more readable.  Unfortunately, I
> appear to be limited by
> > the semantics of the "<xsl:attribute>" element. 
> It does not trim
> > leading and trailing spaces, and it encodes any
> newlines found in the
> > resulting value.
> > 
> > I'm using JDK 1.4.2, in case there are constraints
> in the native TRAX
> > implementation inherent in that.
> 
> 

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