Re: Outputting White Space Only Nodes from Variables

 Thank you both, Liam and Wendell. After Liam's reference to the relevant part
of the spec I checked it and realized the <xsl:text> approach would work and
had my obligatory "D'oh!" moment. I think I'll use that as I find it more
legible.
Don
    On Monday, February 22, 2021, 06:40:34 AM CST, Wendell Piez
wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Hi,
You could also have:
B <xsl:variable name="generatedTextAfter" as="xs:string?"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text></xsl:variable>

The deal is that directly inside that xsl:variable, a whitespace-only text
node in the XSLT is considered to be 'cosmetic' and dropped. So there is no
space to be placed into the result.
Adding xsl:text forces the text node, which is then cast to a string following
theB @ as .
(What are those robots doing to my notation?)
Cheers, Wendell

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:07 AM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 02:14 +0000, Don Smith
dsmith_lockesmith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 1. Use different instructions for the output of the variable: value-
> of, copy-of, and sequence2. Created the variables as both strings and
> elements and even RTFs3. Tried a character map4. Tried an alternative
> approach like using strings "#SPACE, #TAB, #NL, etc. I know that
> would work but seems like it should be unnecessary?
> In every case the white space only variable content gets stripped
> out. How can such content be output?

I tried,
<xsl:variable name="generatedTextAfter" as="xs:string?" select=" ' '
"/>
and got output.


The relevant text in the spec is this:
https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#stylesheet-stripping

Liam

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