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RE: White Spaces before texts
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] White Spaces before texts
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:39:26 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
I suspect you are describing the output as displayed by the browser, not the
actual generated HTML.
HTML ignores multiple spaces; to make them show in the browser you need to
output a non-breaking space, Š. This is an HTML "feature", nothing to
do with XSLT.
Mike Kay
Software AG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Howard Lim
> Sent: 24 May 2001 16:55
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] White Spaces before texts
>
>
> I would like the following output:
> " Welcome to mysite"
> Note: 2 empty spaces before the sentence start and "mysite" is a link
>
> I had tried the following in my xsl file:
> <td>
> <xsl:text> Welcome to</xsl:text>
> <a href="http://www.mysite.com">mysite</a>
> </td>
> It never give me the empty spaces before the word "Welcome".
> this is the
> output:
> "Welcome to mysite"
>
> I also tried out the following:
> <td>
> <![CDATA[ ]]>
> <a href="networking.asp" class="category">Networking</a>
> </td>
> And it give me the same output:
> "Welcome to mysite"
>
> I need some empty spaces before the sentence start, can
> somebody please
> help? Thank you.
>
> Howard
> howard.lim@us.net56.net
>
>
>
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