Re: When is xsl:text relevant?

Hi Jim,

It makes sens to me. It was what I ended up thinking as well actually but it's
always nice to have feedback from people having more knwoledge in an are.

Thanks
- Sylvain

Selon James Fuller <jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >As I'm not a guru of XSLT, I am surely missing a point but why would I
> should
> >use xsl:text?
> >
> >
>
> The <xsl:text> element is defined whenever you need to write 'literal'
> text to the output.
>
> >Look at the following example :
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#result-element-stylesheet
> >
> >Would it make more sense to use :
> ><p><xsl:text>Total Amount: </xsl:text></p>
> >
> >Instead of :
> ><p>Total Amount: </p>
> >
> >I've red the doc but I'm still not confident on when to use xsl:text.
> >
> >
>
> for me the biggest thing of using xsl:text is whenever you want to
> engage d-o-e (disable-output-encoding).
>
> I am certain that there are certain assumptions with whitespace when
> wrapped in xsl:text, which is probably the 'reason' why we have such an
> element in the first place.
>
> hth, Jim Fuller
>
> >Thanks for any highlights.
> >
> >- Sylvain
> >
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