RE: [xsl] Saxon vs. Xalan - output not the same

["Andrew Welch" <awelch at piper-group dot com>]

Hi,

Whitespace is creeping into your output here:

> <xsl:template match="tight">
> .BR <xsl:value-of select="." />

Between the start of the template and the value-of you have a carriage
return and '.BR'.

The xslt processor will ignore whitespace only text nodes, so you will
need you wrap the text in <xsl:text>

There are many flavours, such as

<xsl:template match="tight">
  <xsl:text>.BR</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="." />

or

<xsl:template match="tight">
  <xsl:text/>.BR<xsl:value-of select="." />

its up to you.

Text that is just floating around is usually a bad thing, so its a good
habit to use <xsl:text> from the off

cheers
andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kushmerek [mailto:gkushmer@mathworks.com]
> Sent: 29 August 2002 16:50
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] Saxon vs. Xalan - output not the same
> 
> 
> Apologies if this comes twice -- I had an error on my end and 
> can't tell if
> it got out the first time.
> 
> Hi all,
> I have this bit of XSL:
> 
> <xsl:template match="tight">
> .BR <xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text/>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="position() != last()">, </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="position() = last()">. </xsl:when>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> that matches this bit of XML:
> <tight><link>mget</link></tight>
> <tight><link>medit</link></tight>
> 
> Using Xalan, I get output like this:
> 
> mget, medit.
> 
> Using Saxon, I get output like this:
> 
> mget,
> 
> medit,
> 
> I want the the output from Saxon to look like Xalan's output 
> . Any ideas 
> what I can do to fix this?
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> --gk
> Greg Kushmerek
> Sr. Technical Writer
> IA/Tools
> The MathWorks
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