[oXygen-user] Whitespace-only text nodes in XSLT

[George Bina]

Hi Wendell,

I think that is removed by step 3 in
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#stylesheet-stripping

Best Regards,
George
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On 25/06/15 23:44, Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hey Syd,
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Syd Bauman <> wrote:
>> If it makes you feel any better, Wendell, I get the same output when
>> I run this on itself in saxon[1] from the commandline. I get the
>> expected whitespace node if I add
>>      <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>
> Yes, I suspect that Saxon or its parser is stripping the node for some
> reason. Thanks for helping to confirm it's not an oXygen thing.
>
> The indent='yes' whitespace isn't actually the same ... it is inserted
> by the serializer. and for one reason and another, isn't really
> workable for me. (In the actual problem I am generating HTML output,
> and in mixed content in the result, no extra whitespace is inserted
> even with indent='yes'.)
>
> I checked the Saxon -strip:none flag, which seems like it's supposed
> to prevent this (though I have no DTD); I wonder what's up with it.
>
> Cheers, Wendell
>
>>> Given this stylesheet:
>>>
>>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>>    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>>    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
>>>    version="2.0">
>>>
>>>    <xsl:variable name="mixed" as="element()">
>>>      <mixed>Here is mixed content, including
>>>
>>>        <one>children</one>
>>>        <two>with nothing</two>
>>>
>>>        but whitespace between them.</mixed>
>>>    </xsl:variable>
>>>
>>>    <xsl:template match="/">
>>>      <xsl:apply-templates select="$mixed"/>
>>>    </xsl:template>
>>>
>>>    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
>>>      <xsl:copy>
>>>        <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
>>>      </xsl:copy>
>>>    </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>>
>>> I run it on itself in oXygen, and get
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><mixed>Here is mixed content, including
>>>
>>>        <one>children</one><two>with nothing</two>
>>>
>>>        but whitespace between them.</mixed>
>>>
>>> I would expect whitespace between the </one><two>.
>>>
>>> What am I missing? Have things changed wrt whitespace-handling rules?
>>>
>>> (As I see it, the temporary tree $mixed should contain a
>>> whitespace-only text node between the 'one' and 'two' elements.)
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insights,
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