AAGGGH!

I used my standard stylesheet template that contains the strip-space instruction! So naturally, the space was stripped. And, as Andrew stated, the xsl:preserve-space counter-acted the xsl:strip-space.

Sorry for the confusion.
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent:     Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:32:40 -0500
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  RE: Re: RE:  how to reserve single space after transformation

My mistake. Here is the stylesheet I inferred from the original post.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
<!--  <xsl:preserve-space elements="string" /> -->

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="category_label">
         <xsl:copy-of select="." />
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


As is, it strips the space. If I un-comment the xsl:preseve-space instruction, the space is preserved.

i.e., 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<category_label>
   <string/>
</category_label>

versus

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<category_label>
   <string> </string>
</category_label>
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:18:25 +0000
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re: RE:  how to reserve single space after transformation

On 3/5/07, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just ran her stylesheet against her XML document with SaxonB 8.7.3, and got exactly the results she showed.

Strange... I didn't see any stylesheet in the original post...

Also I don't think xsl:preserve-space would help unless it was used to
counter xsl:strip-space.