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Subject: RE: [xsl] Difference between <when>x</when> and <when><text>x</text></when>
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:11:18 -0000

> Whitespace-only text nodes in the stylesheet should be 
> ignored, unless an ancestor node contains the 
> xml:space="preserve" directive. <xsl:text> elements 
> automatically imply xml:space="preserve" to the XSLT processor.

Yes, thanks for the reminder, I often forget that rule. Putting
xml:space="preserve" in a stylesheet is definitely NOT recommended, but it's
something to look out for when you have otherwise inexplicable behaviour.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 


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