RE: xml:preserve space makes xsl:attribute fail in IE6

> For my xsl stylesheet, using
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0" xml:space="preserve"> in IE6, I had a problem.
> 
> I found that when using the xsl:attribute construct like this, no 
> attributes were added to my anchor tag (by checking the HTML source)
> 
>          <a>
>          <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                  <xsl:value-of select="@start"/>
>          </xsl:attribute>
>          <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
>          </a>
>

Because you have said that whitespace is significant, the spaces between
the <a> and the <xsl:attribute> are treated as a text node to be added
as a child of the <a> element in the result tree. It's an error to try
to add an attribute to an element after adding a text node.
Implementations are allowed to either report the error, or ignore the
offending attribute node. It seems MSXML is doing the latter.

Using xml:space="preserve" in a stylesheet is not something I recommend,
unless the relevant section of the stylesheet is pure data that you want
to copy to the result tree.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
 
> I used the space="preserve" to keep my HTML tidy and 
> readable. Finally 
> after trying a number of otherwise working examples, I removed 
> space="preserve" from the stylesheet tag and presto, the 
> attribute was 
> added as expected.
> 
> I am transforming the XML source in javascript, setting up an 
> XML object 
> with MSXML2.DOMDocument ...
> 
> Questions : is there a known problem with preserve space on IE6 ?
> 
> Would this occur if I were to transform the XML server side (is it a 
> javascript problem) ?
> 
> Is there any other way to keep the HTML output formatting as 
> indented in 
> the stylesheet ?
> 
> Thanks for any feedback.
> Regards,
> Neil Smith.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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