HTML formatting after applying XSL to XML

[Simon M]

Hi,

Hopefully someone can answer this; I am using aspx and c# to format XML
using an XSL transform, the output is then written to the the response of the
webform. When the page first loads the layout is not like it is described in
the XSL... there is too much whitespace with gaps between things where there
should be no gaps. If I save the html source and reopen it, it is as I want -
formatted perfectly with no whitespace. If I load the page and then hit
Ctrl+N (I'm using IE 6) the new window has the correct formatting!

Is there anything simple I have overlooked because I can not discover the
reason for the ill-formatted initial web form?!

Thanks in advance for any help,

Simon

[Pascal Schmitt]

Hello!

Hopefully someone can answer this; I am using aspx and c# to format XML
using an XSL transform, the output is then written to the the response of the
webform. When the page first loads the layout is not like it is described in
the XSL... there is too much whitespace with gaps between things where there
should be no gaps. If I save the html source and reopen it, it is as I want -
formatted perfectly with no whitespace. If I load the page and then hit
Ctrl+N (I'm using IE 6) the new window has the correct formatting!

Is there anything simple I have overlooked because I can not discover the
reason for the ill-formatted initial web form?!

This sounds like an IE Problem... surely your code did not change since
you opened the new window.

Maybe you should use <xsl:output indent="no" .../> and enclose all
Text-Fragments in your XSLT in <xsl:text .../> Elements.
If you want to force some whitespace, use xml:space="preserve"
--
Pascal Schmitt

[Griff]

This sounds like an IE Problem... surely your code did not change since
you opened the new window.

Could it be a timing issue?

If you're streaming the data slowly to the browser, then I guess it may
screw up the display, but if it reads it all in quickly then it's fine.

You could investigate by buffering the response.

Just a thought...

Griff