Re: [xsl] Space Between 2 consecutive Nodes

[Jeni Tennison <jeni at jenitennison dot com>]

Hello Kumar,

> Below line present my XML file.
>
> <Para>This is Example <Italic>Italic Text</Italic> <Bold>Bold
> Text</Bold> Text</Para>
>
> I am using MSXML3. When i start the transforming the above into
> HTML, i am getting the below output.
>
> This is Example Italic TextBold Text Text.
>
> In the above output, space between 2 consecutive nodes (i.e.
> <italic> & <bold>) is dropped.
>
> But i need,
>
> This is Example Italic Text Bold Text Text.

This is because of MSXML's annoying (and arguably non-conformant)
habit of stripping whitespace-only text nodes (text nodes that
consists purely of whitespace) whether you want it to or not. By the
time the information about the XML document gets through to the XSLT
processor within MSXML, the space between the Italic and Bold elements
doesn't exist any more, so there's nothing you can do within the XSLT
to change it.

There are two options. The best is to tell MSXML not to strip
whitespace-only text nodes by controlling the transformation through a
script and in that script setting the .preserveWhiteSpace property of
the DOM that holds the source XML file to true.

Alternatively, you could change the XML source and include an
xml:space attribute on the Para element, as follows:

<Para xml:space="preserve">This is Example <Italic>Italic
Text</Italic> <Bold>Bold Text</Bold> Text</Para>

Cheers,

Jeni

---
Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list