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Subject: Re: [xsl] Significant whitespace in attribute values From: Michael Müller-Hillebrand <mmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:54:34 +0200 |
I would like to add that currently the XML is not accompanied by a DTD or XML Schema. It seems to me the attribute values are then treated as CDATA. - Michael Am 15.07.2010 um 12:47 schrieb Michael M|ller-Hillebrand: > Hello friends, > > I maybe tasked with XSL-transforming some XML into a publishable version, but I shuddered as soon as I saw the input (coming from a custom-built Web CMS). It is something like the following with significant line feeds in attribute values: > > <items> > <item name="address" data=" > Company Name > Street Address > ZIP City > Country > " /> > </items> > > I have seen and dealt with line feeds in element content, but this time an alarm clock rang in my head. Am I right in my interpretation of the XML standard that attribute content must be normalized by a conforming XML parser and therefore it would never be possible to write an XSL to locate line feeds in attribute values? > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize > > This would give me a strong and invincible reason to tell the CMS programmers to change their stuff. > > - Michael
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