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

[Wendell Piez]

Hi,

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,
Wendell

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