Re: [xslt] Rogue newline appearing between elements

[Justin Fletcher <justin fletcher ntlworld com>]

In message <20011101090539.W9703@redhat.com>
          Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:50:38PM +0000, Justin Fletcher wrote:
> > In message <548ebbd14a.Justin@gerph.movspclr.co.uk>
> >           Justin Fletcher <justin.fletcher@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > With xsltproc from libxslt 1.0.6, I'm getting a rogue new line appearing
> > > in my output and I cannot see where it's coming from. If there is something
> > > special in the specification that covers this behaviour, it has elluded
> > > me. I have cut down the stylesheet and data set to about as small as I can
> > > make it whilst retaining some vague sense and still exhibit the oddity.
> > >
> > > Command used to process input:
> > >   *xsltproc -o data.html data.xsl data.xml
> > >
> > > --8<-------- data/xsl
> > > <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
> > >
> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > >                 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> > >                 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict";>
> > >
> > > <xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Further to my previous email, if I make the output method xml, the
> > 'rogue white-space' goes away; which lead me to investigate a little
> > further.
> >
> > libxslt calls htmlDocContentDumpOutput in xsltSaveResultTo. This in
> > turn calls htmlDocContentDumpFormatOutput with the 'format' parameter
> > set to 1, which forces formatting return/spaces to be added. Should there
> > be a way of calling htmlDocContentDumpFormatOutput directly with an
> > option for the formating, rather than forcing the use of it ?
>
>   Hum the indent= value in the case of xsl:output with method="html"
> was not taken into account. The enclosed patch fixes it

Checked locally and there's no problems now. Thanks loads. Sorry that the
first report was very longwinded :-)

On a related note, the routine called, htmlDocContentDumpFormat doesn't seem
to be exported in the headers, so I get a warning about an undeclared
function.

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