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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Question on space normalization in serialization
I am probably forgetting something basic in the XSLT specs about how string
variables are created and evaluated, but I was experimenting with including CSS
rules within an XSLT stylesheet and then writing them at run time along with the
output of my transformation via xsl:result-document. I discovered that if I put
the CSS into a string variable using the @select attribute, linefeeds are not
preserved in the output; but if I put the CSS text into a sequence constructor,
the linefeeds are preserved in the output. What's the underlying reason,
assuming this isn't implementation-dependent? (I'm testing with Saxon; XSLT 2
and 3 produce identical results.)
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
version="2.0">
<xsl:variable name="CSS1" as="xs:string" select="'
p { color:pink; }
a { font-family: fantasy}
'"/>
<xsl:variable name="CSS2" as="xs:string">
p { color:pink; }
a { font-family: fantasy}
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template name="main">
<xsl:result-document href="test1.css" method="text">
<xsl:value-of select="$CSS1"/>
</xsl:result-document>
<xsl:result-document href="test2.css" method="text">
<xsl:value-of select="$CSS2"/>
</xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>-- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
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