XSL: Whitespace Problem With HTML Output

[josh.asbury]

I am having some major issues with whitespace in my XSL stylesheets.
We recently upgraded our servlet-based application to JDK 1.4, and this
has forced the issue of my finally upgrading to Xalan-Java 2. The
earlier version of Xalan was much more forgiving in regards to
whitespace in our .xsl files, and now I am learning all about
<xsl:text> and <xsl:strip-space>.

I've come across something with HTML buttons, though, that I can't find
a way around.

Our XSL looks like this:
<input type="button" name="save" id="save"
onClick="thisVa lidate()"> <xsl:attribut e
name="value">se lect</xsl:attribute>
</input>
<span style="width:5"/>
<input type="button" name="cancel" id="cancel" value="cancel">
<xsl:attribut e name="onClick"> window.navigate ('<xsl:value-of
select="$parent Page"/>?catid=<xsl:va lue-of
select="$catego ryId"/>')</xsl:attribute> </input>

Which outputs to HTML exactly like this:
<INPUT onClick="thisVa lidate()" id="save" name="save" type="button"
value="select"> <span style="width:5" ></span><input value="cancel"
id="cancel" name="cancel" type="button"
onClick="window .navigate('AddL ocalServicesByC ategory
?catid=204194') ">
---------------------------------------------

I'm stumped. I've put <xsl:text/> in the window.navigate section.
I've put <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> in the stylesheet ( which, I
think, shouldn't impact this behavior ).

Any insight or ideas on this would be greatly appreciated. I've got a
ton of stylesheets behaving like this and need to have a solid
go-forward plan in order to make this upgrade a success.

Thanks!
Josh

[Joris Gillis]

Tempore 22:36:35, die Friday 28 January 2005 AD, hinc in foro {comp.text.xml} scripsit <jo*********@gm ail.com>:

Our XSL looks like this:
<input type="button" name="save" id="save"
onClick="thisVa lidate()"> <xsl:attribut e
name="value">se lect</xsl:attribute>
</input>
<span style="width:5"/>
<input type="button" name="cancel" id="cancel" value="cancel">
<xsl:attribut e name="onClick"> window.navigate ('<xsl:value-of
select="$parent Page"/>?catid=<xsl:va lue-of
select="$catego ryId"/>')</xsl:attribute> </input>

Which outputs to HTML exactly like this:
<INPUT onClick="thisVa lidate()" id="save" name="save" type="button"
value="select"> <span style="width:5" ></span><input value="cancel"
id="cancel" name="cancel" type="button"
onClick="window .navigate('AddL ocalServicesByC ategory
?catid=204194') ">
---------------------------------------------

I'm stumped. I've put <xsl:text/> in the window.navigate section.
I've put <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> in the stylesheet ( which, I
think, shouldn't impact this behavior ).

well, in fact it does not. The 'strip-space' element tells the XSLT processor to omit text nodes that contain nothing but whitespaces.

It seems the problem lies with the 'parentPage' variable; it contains linebreaks. You can trim the whitespaces with the 'normalize-space()':
<xsl:value-of select="normali ze-space($parentPa ge)"/>

Better would be to prohibit the linebreaks from being added at all when you create the variable.

regards,
--
Joris Gillis (http://www.ticalc.org/cgi-bin/acct-v...i?userid=38041)
"Et ipsa scientia potestas est" - Francis Bacon , Meditationes sacrae

[Josh]

That did it. Thanks!!