Re: [xml] xsl:copy and line breaks between attributes

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 02.06.2004 11:27, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
>
> > That is exactly what bothers you, no? Most unfortunate, I see Xalan 
> > doing the same:
>
>
> Yes, that's exactly what bothers me. I tried sablotron too and it
> looses a good few of the other newlines too. I appreciate that what it
> is doing is perfectly valid and in XML terms, both files are the same.
> But it is unfortunate because it means XSLT can't be used in this sort
> of situation.
>
> I was hoping, that maybe the XML parser had enough information around
> internally that it would be possible to make it pull out the original
> element from the input.
>
>
> > You can use some stream editing tool (sed, or its like) and try to edit 
> > a file with that. It may or may not be possible to do, depends on the 
>
>
> sed wouldn't be powerful enough to make the edits and most of the logic
> is already there in XSLT. My best hope is perhaps to try to make the
> XSLT output the changes in the form of a sed script. Is it possible to
> get at line numbers within XSLT? I'd assume xsltproc has them somewhere
> for producing error messages?

xsltproc doesn't have them, libxml does. You could discover the line 
number from within a C program, but XSLT offers no means known to me for 
achieving this.

Ciao,
Igor