Re: How to prevent spaces in the output

That did the trick. Thank you.
I did not now that <xsl:text> will clear the spaces around it.
Thanks a lot.

Hi Mansour,

This is a FAQ. Use xsl:text when you want to output text. The reason that you see whitespace is because around the "=" sign, there's significant whitespace because you created mixed content. Using xsl:text you avoid this:

<xsl:text>=</xsl:text>

Of course, alternatively you can also remove the significant whitespace.

On a side note: your xsl:for-each is not necessary. If it is the only instruction in your template, you can remove it completely (it is redundant) while changing the template match to this:

<xsl:template match="something/@*">
  <formatting....

If you left out some code and you do more in the template, you can also split it:

<xsl:template match="something">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" />
    ... other things on "something"
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="something/@*">
    <formatting...
</xsl:template>

HTH,
Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma

Mansour wrote:

Hello every one:
I am facing some difficulties with the spaces in the resulting output. For example:

<xsl:template match="something" >
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
                       <formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
                           <xsl:value-of select="concat(' ',name(.))" />
                       </formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
                       =
                       <formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
                           <xsl:value-of
                               select="concat('&quot;',.,'&quot;')" />
                       </formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
                   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

the output is :
<formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
attri
</formatting:ATTRIBUTENAME>
=
<formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>
"value"
</formatting:ATTRIBUTEVALUE>

Then when I convert it to html, there are spaces like this: attri = "value"

How do I avoid this ??