Re: [xslt] Question about white space output

[rm mh-freiburg de (Le grande pinguin)]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:34:42PM +0200, srperan@sherlock.dif.um.es wrote:
> Well, maybe I did not explain correctly. Excuse me, but my english is
> not very good.

No need to apologize, o lot of us aren't native speakers.
But (IMHU) Daniel's main point was: be precise in what you provide
as context information. Best: provide a small (but complete!, see below)
sample case that demonstrates the problem (input, stylefile, output,
expected output). Also, since this is _not_ a "general tipps and
help for XSLT" mailing list: have you tested your data with other
XSLT processors and do they give different output? If not there's a good
chance that your XSLT is incorrect.

> I have a XML file, and I use libxslt to process it. The output is a TEXT
> file.
> I want to insert white spaces into the output TEXT file.
> I am not talking about a libxslt bug. I am just asking how to do it.
> 
> I have been reading past messages and I have seen similar questions, but
> I think those questions was not regarding a TEXT output.
> I will be more explicit. We have this XML piece :
> 
> 
> <sequence name="secuencia2">
>   <sequence>
>     <sequence type="long">
>     </sequence>
>   </sequence>
> </sequence>
> 
> 
> and using this template, we want to obtain a TEXT output:

This is _not_ enough! There's the stylesheet tag missing. Even more
important: what's the value of the 'method' attribute of the
'xsl:output' tag (you _did_ use a 'method' attribute, or?).

> <xsl:template match="sequence">
> <xsl:choose>
> 	<xsl:when test="@name">typedef sequence &lt;<xsl:apply-templates
> 	select="sequence"/><xsl:if test="@max">,<xsl:value-of
> 	select="@max"/></xsl:if> &gt; <xsl:value-of
> 	select="@name"/>;</xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:when test="@type">sequence &lt;<xsl:value-of
> 		select="@type"/><xsl:if test="@max">, <xsl:value-of
> 		select="@max"/></xsl:if> &gt; </xsl:when>
> 			<xsl:otherwise>sequence &lt;<xsl:apply-templates
> 			select="sequence"/><xsl:if test="@max">,
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@max"/></xsl:if>&gt;
> 			</xsl:otherwise>
> 			</xsl:choose> <xsl:value-of select="@nombre"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> When we process this, we obtain this output :
> 
> typedef sequence < sequence < sequence < long >>>secuencia2;
> 
> When we need :
> 
> typedef sequence < sequence < sequence < long > > > secuencia2;
> 
> Now, the question is, how can I insert the white spaces between symbols?
> symbols?


Hmm, hmmm:
 </xsl:if> &gt; </xsl:when>

There's whitespace at the beginning and end of the text node ....
Depending on your output method that's dangerous. How about:

 </xsl:if><xsl:text>  </xsl:text>&gt;<xsl:text>  </xsl:text></xsl:when>


hth Ralf Mattes
> 
> Thank You.
> 
> Jose Luis Peran
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:44:16AM +0200, srperan@sherlock.dif.um.es wrote:
> > > Hello. I am using libxslt to process a XML file and output a plain text
> > > file and I need to insert white spaces. I have tried with <xsl:text>
> > > &#160; </xsl:text> but this returns a symbol, not whitespace.
> > 
> >  What symbol ? This is probably equivalent to the &#160;
> > 
> > > I have read that this is an encoding problem
> > 
> >   Where ? how ? by whom ? Pointer please ! If someone think there is a bug
> > in libxslt, he better state it clearly and give a full example, you
> > included ! Have you read http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/bugs.html ? If yes
> > why didn't you follow the guidelines 
> >   "send the command showing the error as well as the input and stylesheet"
> > 
> > > but I can tell to libxslt that the
> > > output must be ISO-8859-1.
> > 
> >  Your report is terribly unprecise. You "can" or you "did" ask for 
> > ISO-8859-1 ? 
> >  You don't even tell what kind of output you asked for, xml ? html ? text ?
> > I doubt it's a bug, on the other hand you sound very confused. And your
> > report contains no way to check what you're trying to argue about, nor
> > even to try to get an idea of what exactly is the problem. As a result
> > we are both loosing time :-( . Follow the guidelines, they are there for
> > good reasons !
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > -- 
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