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   RE: [xml-dev] Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReade r

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  • To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReade r
  • From: "Derek Denny-Brown" <derekdb@microsoft.com>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:37:01 -0700
  • Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReade r

I'd believe that.  I'll even file it as a bug.  Thanks for identifying
the specific case where Msxml is dropping the whitespace.

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: Derek Denny-Brown
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Handling of significant whitespace in .NET
XmlReade
> r
> 
> 
> I wrote
> 
> > But since I failed to reproduce this now, I'll have to eat my words
and
> > confirm that
> >
> > > Xslt should still
> > > be acting like there was a single space there
> 
> 
> I ate my words too soon.
> If you have a _really_ trivial stylesheet that does copy the entire
> document in a single operation then your magic spaces do appear in the
> output, but if you do the usual thing of having an "identity template"
> that walks the tree, they go.
> 
> ie.xml:
> =======
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ie.xsl"?>
> <p>
> <b>this</b> <i>is</i> <span class="zzz">bad</span>
> </p>
> 
> 
> ie.xsl:
> ======
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0"
> >
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <html>
> <head><title>test</title></head>
> <body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
> voila: No spaces.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>
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