Re: White space strategies for mixed content

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Subject: Re: White space strategies for mixed content
From: "Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 15:29:07 -0000

On 05/11/2019 01:00, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi All,

I have inherited some "interesting" xml that has mixed content and I am trying to figure out some strategies for getting "cleaner" output in my XSLT workflow without removing any needed whitespace.

This is a very common problem in handling document XML with significant amounts of mixed content, especially with nested subelements. It's made unnecessarily harder by the dropping of white-space-only nodes (we should have paid more attention to this at the time).

Michael has explained the dropping of insignificant white-space. I don't need that because I'm typically outputting to LaTeX which does that by itself, but I do need the reverse: to reinsert the deleted white-space-only nodes which fall between subelements, eg

...use <tag>foo</tag>, <emph>never</emph> <tag>bar</tag>...

To avoid this, in the template for each element which may occur in mixed content, you could first call a short named template which tests if the immediately-preceding node has a name which is not 'text', and in that case, insert a single space character.

Peter

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White space strategies for mixed content
- Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 5 Nov 2019 00:59:52 -0000
  - Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx - 5 Nov 2019 11:57:37 -0000
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      - Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx - 5 Nov 2019 15:46:53 -0000
      - David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx - 5 Nov 2019 16:00:47 -0000
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