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Nat,
Hermann has offered you the solution. You also asked whether white space between tags in XML source wasn't (shouldn't be) ignored in the transformation. The answer is no. In the general case, XML parsers are not supposed to strip any whitespace at all, in the expectation that without a schema, it can't know which white space matters, and which white space doesn't. For example, in an element like <p>He sent her roses <i>and</i> <b>chocolate</b>.</p> you wouldn't want the whitespace between the 'i' and the 'b' elements to be stripped. This general rule is however subject to a number of caveats: * Some XML processors ignore it: caveat emptor. (For example, MSXML is famous for this.) * In XSLT 2.0, where schema-aware processing can be supported, a source tree can be pruned of insignificant whitespace nodes, on the basis of schema declarations that mandate treating whitespace as cosmetic. For example, in your data, if there were a schema or DTD declaration for 'actions' that said it could contain only 'effect', or at any rate not contain text (#PCDATA), then it would be known statically that whitespace didn't count, and a processor could discard it for you. In addition, even in XSLT 1.0 there are top-level instructions, xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space, which allow you to control this directly. I hope this helps, Wendell At 06:16 PM 2/23/2009, you wrote: <xsl:for-each select="child::*"> does what you want.... Does white space between elements of an xml document effect the output of a transformation of that document? I noticed that sometimes adding a new line in between the closing tag of one element and the opening tag of the next element changes my output, even though I am working with the same stylesheet. ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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