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Eric,
<some_tag xml:space="preserve">

    Imagine this is a poem
  and we want lines idented
  in this strange fasion

    This is a nonsensical indentation
  but serves to make the point
  about what I mean by preserving whitespace
  
</some_tag>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:template match="some_tag">	
		<cut_and_paste>
				<xsl:value-of select="." />
		</cut_and_paste>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Ciao Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Smith
> Sent: 23 September 2001 10:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] what I meant by preserving whitespace
> 
> 
> According to Dimitre Novatchev on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 
> 10:57:51PM -0700:
> | > I have looked at the archives and failed to implement the
> | > xml:space="preserve"
> | > to preserve white space in selected nodes - failing that 
> preserving
> | > whitespace globally.
> | > 
> | > I have tried most things I could think of, so would appreciate a 
> | > simple example of how to achieve this.
> | 
> | The following stylesheet (applyed on any xml source) will 
> try to pad 
> | the string "abc" with 3 spaces to the right.
> | 
> | Two templates -- "pad" and "pad2" are called, the only difference 
> | being in how the "space buffer" variable is defined in them:
> | 
> | In the "pad" template we have:
> | 
> |     <xsl:variable name="spaces">
> | 	    <xsl:text xml:space="preserve">          </xsl:text>
> |     </xsl:variable>
> | 
> | In the "pad2" template we have:
> | 
> |     <xsl:variable name="spaces">
> | 	    <xsl:text>          </xsl:text>
> |     </xsl:variable>
> | 
> <snip>
> 
> Thank you, but I do not see why I need to define a $spaces 
> variable for this.
> 
> <some_tag>
> 
>     Imagine this is a poem
>   and we want lines idented
>   in this strange fasion
> 
>     This is a nonsensical indentation
>   but serves to make the point
>   about what I mean by preserving whitespace
>   
> </some_tag>
> 
> In the output I do not wnt to see this:
> 
> <cut_and_paste>
> 
> Imagine this is a poem and we want lines idented in this 
> strange fasion This is a nonsensical indentation but serves 
> to make the point about what I mean by preserving whitespace
> 
> </cut_and_paste>
> 
> A simple solution for this?
> 
> -- 
> Eric Smith
> 
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