Re: Preventing indents/new lines in XSL file from appearing in output file.

[Tony Graham <tgraham at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 23 Aug 2000 14:57 +0100, Deirdre O'Brien wrote:
...
 > <xsl:template match="HEADER">
 >   idr=<xsl:value-of select="ID"/>|
 >   buyer=<xsl:value-of select="BID"/>|
 > </xsl:template>
 > 
 > When I indent the lines under the <xsl:template> tag, the indents also
 > appear in the output file.  Is there anyway I can indent my XSL file to
 > make it more readable but not have the indents appear on the output?  I
 > have tried using <xsl:ouput method="text" indent="no"/> to no effect.

Try wrapping the significant text in xsl:text element.
Whitespace-only text nodes are stripped from the tree built from the
stylesheet, so when whitespace that you added to the stylesheet for
readability isn't mixed with printing characters, the whitespace
doesn't appear in your output.

<xsl:template match="HEADER">
  <xsl:text>idr=</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="ID"/><xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
  <xsl:text>buyer=</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="BID"/><xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

If you need linebreaks, you can put them (or their numeric character
references) inside the xsl:text elements:

<xsl:template match="HEADER">
  <xsl:text>idr=</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="ID"/><xsl:text>|
</xsl:text>
  <xsl:text>buyer=</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="BID"/><xsl:text>|&#A;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

Regards,


Tony Graham
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