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Re: (possible) strange behaviour of JD.xslt
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] (possible) strange behaviour of JD.xslt
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:26:30 -0800
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At 09:17 7-11-2001, =?us-ascii?B?IlJ1YuluIE1hcnTtbmV6Ig==?= wrote:
>Does anyone know if the XSLT specification or something say that <xsl:when>
>must follow <xsl:choose> without whitespaces between them when
>xml:space="preserve" is used, or is this a bug of JD.xslt?
As many have noted, the spec is ambiguous on this.
I think this is a symptom of SGML-itis among some of the XSL WG (myself
included). In element content, whitespace is always stripped, and
xsl:choose has element content. Of course, not only does element content
never exist if there's no DTD, but a DTD can't even exist for XSL in
general, so this assumption was entirely unwarranted. I would file a bug
report against JD.xslt anyway - it's not out of conformance with the spec,
but there are *lots* of stylesheets that do this, and it's certainly not
*wrong* to ignore the whitespace.
This is a bit of a problem for SGML-heads - just last week, I was startled
when the element nodes from an <xsl:for-each> were all getting even values
for position(). I had to explicitly say <xsl:for-each select="*"> to get
what I wanted. d-:
~Chris
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