Re: [xml] XSLT space handling

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:29:04AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I am not an XSLT expert, but it seems to me something is not right. 
> > The following template:
> >
> > <xsl:template name="coreprompts-prompt-script" xml:space="preserve">
> >   <xsl:param name="name" select="string(@name)"/>
> > <xsl:value-of select="$name"/> <xsl:value-of select="$name" />
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > results in the two copies of $name having no space between them. 
> > Shouldn't the xml:space="preserve" cause the space between the 
> > xsl:value-of tags to be preserved?
>
>   Sounds right according to http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip
> That looks like a bug in libxslt. Note also that it should also preserve
> and generate in the output:
>    - the white spaces before xsl:param
>    - the white spaces before the first xsl:value-of
>    - the white spaces after the last xsl:value-of

Quite. The space I refered to was just the one I was really interested 
in achieving.

I forgot to say that I got this running xsltproc from xsltlib 1.0.7 on 
RedHat 6.2.

Regards,
Steve