RE: Whitespace problem, always returning identity

It sounds like a bug. <xsl:strip-space elements="*"> should strip all
elements regardless whether they are in a namespace.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Schulz [mailto:schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 22 June 2005 20:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Whitespace problem, always returning identity
> 
> Hi,
> 
> answering myself after some testing. I am not sure, if this 
> is the final 
> cause, but might be of interest to others using the J5 
> SAXParser for XSLT:
> 
> When the parser is set to being aware of namespaces and a no 
> namespace 
> definition is given by xmlns="http://some.na.me/space", at least 
> xsl:strip-space does not seem to work anymore (didn't check for other 
> tags). Qualifying the namespace definition makes it work 
> again. I am not 
> sure, if this is a desired behavior or a bug.
> 
> If anyone had a similar problem and solved it (other than using 
> qualification) I'd be glad to know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan
> 
> Stefan Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > maybe a rookie problem again. I apply the following XSL to any XML 
> > document to omit all whitespaces from non-content data. But 
> the result 
> > still has all the whitespaces as in the source.
> > 
> > <?xml version='1.0' ?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
> >   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> >   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> >     <xsl:copy>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> >     </xsl:copy>
> >   </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > 
> > Example XML (output is identical):
> > <myroot>
> >   <innernode/>
> > </myroot>
> > 
> > Expected Output:
> > <myroot><innernode/></myroot>
> > 
> > Maybe I am missing something, and (to make it worse) I am 
> sure it worked 
> > once before the way I wanted it to.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Stefan