Re: Controlling Whitespace in IE

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Subject: Re: Controlling Whitespace in IE
From: "Manfred Staudinger" <manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:10:40 -0700

Hi Spencer,
The solution which Mukul gave to you, seems to work in general:
you can "append" whitespace to element-nodes but not to
text-nodes. Oddly enough, there is also a differemce in whitespace
handling for output indent="no" and indent="yes": only "no"
eliminates all whitespace.

Regards, Manfred

On 04/05/06, Martin Gadbois <martin.gadbois@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Spencer Tickner wrote:
> I'm having an issue with ie's translation of my xml document. With
> this document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
> <root>
>     <sentencetext>blah <def>blah blah</def> blah blah <def>foo</def>
> <def>bar</def>.</sentencetext>
> </root>
>
> the foo and the bar are stuck together. I am using this stylesheet to
> try and force them apart:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output media-type="html"/>
>
> <xsl:variable name="cr"><xsl:text>
> </xsl:text></xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html>
>     <body>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </body>
>     </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="sentencetext">
>     <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p><xsl:value-of select="$cr"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="def">
> <a class="definition"

href="something"><em><xsl:apply-templates/></em></a>

> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="text()">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="normalize-space(.) = ''"><xsl:text>

</xsl:text></xsl:when>

> <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> IE does not seem to be translating the normalize-space funtion correctly.
>
> For instance, when I put a 1 before the <xsl:text> </xsl:text> in
> firefox I get 1's exactly where I would expect them and foo and bar
> are seperated by a space. However in IE, no 1's appear. Does anybody
> know of a hack or work around for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spencer
> Victoria BC, Canada

I would try to use
<xsl:text xml:space="preserve"> </xsl:text>
That may does the trick.

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RE: Controlling Whitespace in IE, (continued) Michael Kay - 4 May 2006 18:09:17 -0000 Spencer Tickner - 4 May 2006 18:18:40 -0000 Mukul Gandhi - 4 May 2006 18:38:58 -0000 Martin Gadbois - 4 May 2006 18:39:34 -0000 Manfred Staudinger - 4 May 2006 19:11:04 -0000 <= Michael Kay - 4 May 2006 19:45:21 -0000 Spencer Tickner - 4 May 2006 20:04:20 -0000

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