Re: RE: need to show spaces

You have to get very clear on what you want.   Your transformation does
actually output all the spaces that were originally present.  A browser will
display all the spaces as a single visible space.  So the extra spaces
normally will not show in a browser even though they are present in the
document.

You can force the browser to show spaces by using nonbreaking spaces ( 
in html, but in xml use   instead).  It is a browser issue, not an xslt
problem.  You can, however, solve it with xslt.

You can change the spaces to nonbreaking spaces by using translate():

<xsl:value-of select='translate(@val," ","&#160;")'/>

Cheers,

Tom P

[Anurag Batra]

 I am facing a problem with XSL.

I have in my XML
<a>
  <b val="11      22      33     44    55"></b>
  <b val="aa      bb      cc     dd    ee"></b>
  <b val="12      12      12     12    12"></b>
  <b val="44      55      66     77    88"></b>
</a>

in my XSL i have
   <table>
      <xsl:for-each select="a/b">
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="@val"/></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>

the output does not shows the spaces as they are. It just shows one space
gap between them. I want the string to appear as it is without any
formatting(trimming).

I have put
<xsl:preserve-space elements="a"/> in the XSL but doesnt make a diff.

whats the way to overcome this problem?




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