Re: Plain Text Handling in XSLT Output

Thanks for your quick response.
I'm currently reading Michael Kay's "XSLT2.0" and i didn't made it to
page 459 yet so i was not aware of the element xsl:text. :-) This is
exactly what i need, thanx!

white space nodes in a stylesheet are stripped by default) (so you can
indent your xsl code without affecting the result. various ways to
change the default the easiest is to use <xsl:text>...</xsl:text>
so
<xsl:value-of select="Firstname"/> <xsl:value-of select="Lastname"/>

could be
<xsl:value-of select="Firstname"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="Lastname"/>
or
<xsl:value-of select="concat(Firstname,' ',Lastname)"/>
or (in XSLT2)

<xsl:value-of select="Firstname,Lastname"/>

            ">
            (<

That node is not white space it;s a newline a bunch of spaces and a ( so
is not stripped and appears as is in the result. Golden rule is always
put all text in an xsl:text element if you are indenting code

           ">
    <xsl:text>(</xsl:text>
   <xsl:value-of ...

now the indentation spaces are in white space text nodes and so are
ignored.

David

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