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RE: inserting space in xsl:value-of
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] inserting space in xsl:value-of
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:32:40 +0100
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> i have an xml which goes like this
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <name>
> <text>welcome</text>
> <text>to</text>
> <text>amazon.com</text>
> </name>
>
> now i want to display the text in a text field using this
>
> <xsl:for-each select="TEXT">
> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)" />
> </xsl:for-each>
> but i get a string which looks like this without spaces
> "welcometoamazon.com"
>
I don't know why the whitespace nodes are being stripped. It might be that
you are using <xsl:strip-space> in your stylesheet, or it might be that you
are using an XML parser (perhaps Microsoft's) that strips them by default.
If that's the case, change the parsing options to preserveSpace = true.
Mike Kay
Software AG
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