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

[Jirka Kosek]

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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