RE: [xml-dev] XSLT Preserve Space in Attributes

[Lyndon J B Nixon <nixon@fokus.gmd.de>]

Thanks for the replies. I'll have words with the appropriate people about
passing the code in elements rather than attributes. In the meantime I
still have this problem ;-)

At 17:51 21.11.2001 +0000, you wrote:
> > is
> > it possible to preserve space in attribute values when passing them to a
> > XSLT processor?
> >  
> >  
> > Attribute values are normalized
> > according to XML rules before the XSLT processor gets to see them. This
> > means newlines are converted to
> > spaces.

Is there any means to override this in the XML parser? I also figure that
after the conversion process there is no means to 'recover' the newlines
that were stripped. 


> >  This
> > means it isn't a good idea to put JavaScript code in XML attributes,
> > because newlines in JavaScript are significant - for example, a newline
> > can terminate a comment, so replacing it by a space is bad
> > news.
> >  
> > Mike
> > Kay

Oh dear! If anyone has any ideas how to get around this problem, I'd be
pleased to hear it. 

Lyndon

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