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

[Wendell Piez]

Hi again --

Indeed the problem was related to an xsl:import, which I hadn't traced
sufficiently carefully -- sorry for the noise, and the distraction!

Cheers, Wendell


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Wendell Piez <> wrote:
> Dear Jirka and George,
>
> You guys are absolute correct - and I even knew that - unfortunately
> as it happens the real-life bug is in processing a separate file ... I
> thought I'd duplicated it but I guess I was actually demonstrating a
> "feature". :->
>
> Thanks anyhow (I will look back at the offending stylesheet) --
>
> Cheers, Wendell
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Jirka Kosek <> wrote:
>> On 26.6.2015 5:49, George Bina wrote:
>>> I think that is removed by step 3 in
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#stylesheet-stripping
>>
>> Exactly. One has to keep in mind that rules for whitespace stripping are
>> different for input XML documents and for XSLT stylesheets. Usually this
>> works in an intuitive way, but once XML data are put inside XSLT
>> stylesheet it can produce unexpected behaviour.
>>
>> In Wendell's case, easy fix would be using xml:space="preserve":
>>
>> <xsl:variable name="mixed" as="element()">
>>     <mixed xml:space="preserve">Here is mixed content, including
>>
>>       <one>children</one>
>>       <two>with nothing</two>
>>
>>       but whitespace between them.</mixed>
>>   </xsl:variable>
>>
>> Also please note that xml:space can't be put on xsl:variable in this
>> case as text node before <mixed> would break type annotation.
>>
>>                         Jirka
>>
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