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> XSLT 1.0 is 100% clear on this. > > Microsoft are in violation of the standard. Sorry, but that's not 100% clear. The conformance rules require an XSLT processor to transform a source tree into a result tree. They don't require the source tree to be constructed from source XML in any particular way. There is specific mention in the XSLT 1.0 spec of the possibility of starting from a DOM, and the question of whether or not the DOM retains whitespace that was in the original XML source (if there was an original XML source) is completely outside the scope of the XSLT spec. Yes, on the face of it, Microsoft aren't doing what the spec suggests: but there is wriggling room in the small print. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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