RE: Identity Transform losing original line feed

Ken,

Yes, XML readers normalize CR and LF. But I thought, writers would write CR
and LF based on OS again. At least, on my windows machine I see that most
processors are writing CR/LF..

Karl,

Tried using <xsl:output indent="no" /> together with <xsl:preserve-space
elements="*" />? As Jesper points out, it doesn't preserve *all* ignorable
white-space, but at least those between tags.

Kind regards,
Geert

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> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: zaterdag 19 juli 2008 4:07
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Identity Transform losing original line feed
>
> At 2008-07-18 16:29 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> >I have a number of xsl templates which I am running an
> identity transform on:
> >
> ><xsl:template match="node() | @*">
> >     <xsl:copy>
> >         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
> >     </xsl:copy>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >     <xsl:template match="xsl:import/@href | xsl:include/@href">
> >         <xsl:attribute name="href">
> >             <xsl:value-of select="concat('get?include=', .)"/>
> >         </xsl:attribute>
> >     </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >The basic principle here, is preserve the original templates
> exactly,
> >but update the import and include href tag as specified.
> >So the transform works fine except that the line feed character is
> >changed after the transform.
>
> An XML processor is obliged to transform all end-of-line
> sequences into a line-feed character.
>
> >My proof of this is a simple, open in
> >notepad, where before the transform I have line spaces, and
> after the
> >transform I do not.
> >
> >So what gives?  What is happening to those line feeds?  Here
> is my output tag:
> >
> ><xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
> indent="yes"/>
>
> I *never* use indent="yes" with the identity transform
> because I'm not convinced all processors treat the
> white-space-only text nodes the same (or close to the same)
> when indented.
>
> When I use the identity transform I leave indent="no" in
> order to preserve the original input file indentation ... you
> said you wanted to preserve the original templates exactly,
> so don't ask the processor to do arbitrary indentation.
>
> But as for the line feed character, if you use CR-LF or CR
> you will end up with just LF in the output because of XML
> rules, not because of XSLT rules.
>
> If you are using XSLT 2 and you want to force your output to
> be CR-LF then use the output character-map facility to get this.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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