RE: method='text' ... whitespace problems

A newline in an XML document is normalized by the XML parser to x0A. The
spec for the text output method says nothing about how the x0A will be
serialized; I think a literal reading suggests it should be output as
x0A, though I don't think one could quarrel with a processor that used
the platform-specific line ending sequence (i.e., x0D0A on Windows). If
you want to control this, I think you will have to use character
references in your stylesheet, to prevent the XML parser normalizing
them, and you will need to include your own logic (e.g. a stylesheet
parameter) to decide whether to output x0A or x0D0A.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 18 November 2002 16:05
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> Subject:  method='text' ... whitespace problems
> 
> 
> I'm having fun and games generating some plain text output.
> 
> 
> Requirement is to produce something akin to 
> 
> [begin label: ]
> 
>   content
>   content
>   etc
> 
> [end label]
> 
> I.e. each 'block' is seperated by one newline
> from its predecessor, and has one newline
> between the block start ([ .... ] )
> and block end [end ....]
> 
> I really don't know if the user wants to process on *nix
> or win32, hence I have
> 
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY nl "<xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>">
> <!ENTITY indent "<xsl:text>  </xsl:text>">
> ]>
> 
> The indent is not giving any problems, but the newline 
> certainly is. I'm beginning to suspect its the viewer I'm 
> using (as with encoding issues).
> 
> 
> Typically I'm using
> 
> <xsl:template match="element">
> &nl;[begin thisLabel: ]
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> [end thisLabel]
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> which is not producing what I expect. 
> 
> I'm looking for an explanation of what happens with 
> output='text', within a template, and for suggestions as to a 
> definition of the nl entity which might suit either/both 
> win32 + *nix environs.
> 
> 
> TIA, DaveP
> 
> 
> 
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