<xsl:text> </xsl:text> gets <xsl:text/>

Post by **tricky** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:14 pm

Hi all,

I'm having the problem that, when using <xsl:text> </xsl:text> (to put a space in the text) and click the format and indent button, my tags get changed to <xsl:text/>, so I lose my space! Anything to do about it? Thanks!

Patrick

Post by **george** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:41 pm

Hi,

You can use

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<xsl:text xml:space="preserve"> </xsl:text>

or

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<xsl:text><![CDATA[ ]]></xsl:text>

Best Regards,
George

Post by **tricky** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:25 pm

Thanks for your quick response!

However (to be a pain in the ass

), wouldn't it be handy to leave everything between <xsl:text> and </xsl:text> intact...?

Post by **george** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:47 pm

Hi,

There may be cases when you want to use xsl:text and not preserve the spaces, for instance if you edit an XSLT to output HTML and you have a large text content for xsl:text.

We have an entry on bugzilla to allow the user to edit a list of elements that should be treated as if they have an xml:space="preserve" attribute, that is preserve the spaces for a defined lis of elements.

Best Regards,
George