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> And that works. This doesn't seem right, because shouldn't > XSLT ignore the whitespace before the "chap"? Or is > <xsl:variable> an exception to the rule? No look again at th espec, XSL doesn't ignore white space. It stips white space nodes, ie text nodes that only contain white space. But if a text node contains any non white char eg "chap" then all white space is preserved. Since a literal newline in an attribute value would be normalised to a space by an XML parser, your newline in the attribute value is written out as a character reference. > thought the natural way to do this is to use a > <xsl:variable> within a <xsl:choose>. The scope of a variable binding is its surrounding element, so if you do it that way the variable goes out of scope at the </xsl:when> so can never be used. It's more natural the other way. You always want a variable, but the value is conditional on the tests. It's not that depending on a condition you may or may not want a variable. so it's x= (if foo 3 else 5 fi) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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