Re: When is xsl:text relevant?

  Would it make more sense to use :
  <p><xsl:text>Total Amount: </xsl:text></p>

  Instead of :
  <p>Total Amount: </p>


These two are completely equivalent. There are two reasons for using
xsl:text

The first one is that people like to indent their stylesheets
and if you go

  <p>
   <xsl:text>Total Amount: </xsl:text>
  </p>

  <p>
   Total Amount: 
  </p>

then the first one is still equivalent to the two above, but the second
one has changed the content of the p element adding 2 newlines and some
space characters. (Which in this case doesn't change the html rendering,
but in general, it might)

The other reason is that white space text nodes in a styelesheet are
typically ignored, which is why


  <p>
   <xsl:text>Total Amount: </xsl:text>
  </p>


is the same as

  <p><xsl:text>Total Amount: </xsl:text></p>


so if you want to add some space then you can use xsl:text as a white
space text node of xsl:text is not ignored.

  <p> </p>                     will produce <p/>
  <p><xsl:text> </xsl:text></p> will produce <p> </p>

David

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