Re: [xsl] text output with some significant white space

["Steve Renshaw" <renshaw_steve at hotmail dot com>]

I am out putting text but other than kill the prolog, I havent
changed <xsl:output method>. So method="XML" it is. There simply
isn't any tags in the output. But it sort of begs the questions,
when do you use method="text"? My reading of method="text" would
lead me to beleive it's major function is to copy the values of text
nodes to the output. Doe's this mean <tag>content</tag> causes
"content" to go to the output? In my opinion, the method is so
propped up with defaults up xml/html output it is very difficult to figure 
out formatting for other purposes.
Also, it might help getting a better narrative on what <xsl:text/>
does. MK's book has a very capsule explanation. I am afraid I am
in the mode of getting it to work mode and will have to return
the deepeer understanding at a later time.


>From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
>To: renshaw_steve@hotmail.com
>CC: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] text output with some significant white space
>Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:24:10 +0100
>
> > Using "saxon -o ..." givess
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
>I thought you said you were outputting text not XML?
>ie <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
>But mainly it's because I misread the ! as insignificant carrage return.
>so don't do
>
> >
> >**********<xsl:template match="foo">
> >*************begin@<xsl:value-of select="name"/>@{!
> >*************@@@<xsl:value-of select="body"/>!
> >*************@@@}
> >**********</xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >*=space in style sheet
> >@=significant space to place in output
> >!=significant carriage return to place in output
> >
> >           <xsl:template match="foo">
> >              <xsl:text/>begin <xsl:value-of select="name"/> {<xsl:text/>
> >              <xsl:text/>   <xsl:value-of select="body"/>
> >              <xsl:text>   }</xsl:text>
> >           </xsl:template>
> >
>
>do
>
>            <xsl:template match="foo">
>               <xsl:text/>begin <xsl:value-of select="name"/> {
<xsl:text/>
>               <xsl:text/>   <xsl:value-of select="body"/>
<xsl:text/>
>               <xsl:text>   }</xsl:text>
>           </xsl:template>
>
>
>David
>
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