In my experience, this is hard to get right. It shows that XML attributes
weren't really conceived with the idea to write code in them.

Some ideas:
- Modify the XML parser to not do attribute normalisation (if possible in your
environment)
- Maybe try parsing the map using xsl:evaluate and reconstruct it? Although
then you will probably encounter other issues, e.g. I believe key order is
non-deterministic.
- Use <xsl:map>
- Explain your colleagues how it works and tell them to live with it.

Willem

On 3 Apr 2024, 07:29, at 07:29, "David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>If you want to force a newline in the serialisation you need to special
>case the newline from the standard xml normalisation, I use @ here but
>any
>character guaranteed not to be in the input would work
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>  xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/math"
>  xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl"
>  exclude-result-prefixes="xs math xd"
>  version="3.0">
> <xsl:output use-character-maps="nl"/>
> <xsl:character-map name="nl">
>  <xsl:output-character character="@" string="&#10;"/>
> </xsl:character-map>
>  <xd:doc scope="stylesheet">
>    <xd:desc>
>      <xd:p><xd:b>Created on:</xd:b> Apr 2, 2024</xd:p>
>      <xd:p><xd:b>Author:</xd:b> graydon</xd:p>
>      <xd:p></xd:p>
>    </xd:desc>
>  </xd:doc>
>  <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
>  <xd:doc>
>    <xd:desc>increment the instance number</xd:desc>
>  </xd:doc>
><xsl:template match="xsl:variable[@name eq
>'punctuationNameMap']/@select">
>   <xsl:attribute name="select" select="replace(.,' {7}','@      ')"/>
>  </xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 01:16, David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx <
>xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 00:28, Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx <
>> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 09:19:29PM -0000, Michael Kay
>>> michaelkay90@xxxxxxxxx scripsit:
>>> > Well, `file:write` isn't going to add any whitespace, it will be
>some
>>> process prior to that (which you haven't shown us).
>>>
>>> If I boil the whole thing down to a simple example, if I start with:
>>>
>>>
>> so you are adding the space, not the xslt system.
>>
>> In an xml attribute the xml parser will normalise newlines to a space
>so
>> you are adding  9 spaces before each key of the map from a newline
>and 8
>> spaces.
>> You could replace . in replace(.,'''','')  by  normalize-space(.) or
>> replace(.,' ','') depending how aggressively you want to remove
>space.
>>
>> David
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