[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] [no subject]Cheers, Wendell On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 3:59 AM Bauman, Syd s.bauman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the thoughts, Dimitre. Could also use some other character > (like b (U+2420) or b$ (U+2424)) and convert it later. But in fact I have no > need to force a whitespace character on output. If I donbt mention it, the > client may not even notice that all of her PIs have lost a leading space > after her files are bfixedb with my XSLT. But the spaces are summarily > unimportant. (Although it does make me wonder how they got there in the > first place. :-) > > ------------------------------ > Syd, I see two ways (if you really need to) to maintain a PI whose string > value starts with a whitespace character: > > 1. Enclose this value in some strippable non-whitespace characters (say > apostrophes or quotes), or, > > 2. If the value is guaranteed not to end with a space character, just > use the reversed string value, and when you get that in your code, reverse > it back. > > Hope this helps, > > XSL-List info and archive <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list> > EasyUnsubscribe <http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/174322> (by > email <>) > -- ...Wendell Piez... ...wendell -at- nist -dot- gov... ...wendellpiez.com... ...pellucidliterature.org... ...pausepress.org... ...github.com/wendellpiez... ...gitlab.coko.foundation/wendell...
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