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Re: [xml-dev] Handling of empty content and white space-only content?
- To: Michael Kay <mike@...>
- Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Handling of empty content and white space-only content?
- From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@...>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:29:03 -0400
- Cc: toby@..., "'Mark O. Zorro'" <markozorro@...>, xml-dev@...
- Mail-followup-to: Michael Kay <mike@...>, toby@..."'Mark O. Zorro'" <markozorro@...>, xml-dev@...
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* Michael Kay <mike@...> [2005-09-22 08:43]:
> > If an element is declared to contain only other elements, then
> > whitespace is not significant. If, however, an element is declared
> > to contain parsable-character-data, then all whitespace is
> > significant whether or not it comes directly after or directly before
> > an element tag.
>
> Incidentally, I hate the spelling of "white space" as two words. The term
> does not mean "space that is white" (as distinct from space that is red or
> green), therefore it should be a single word.
Oh, well that answers my next XSLT question. I spent all day
yesterday trying to make this work.
<xsl:if test="normalize-greenspace(ht:div) != ''">
<!--| Process div. |-->
</xsl:if>
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