I'm using XSL to 'skin' XML content and translate it into XHTML. It works great as far as the output being valid XHTML and all my tags, scripts, etc. coming out in the browser source.
The only problem I'm running into is the insertion of a newline after every element in my stylesheet. My table elements, specifically TDs and the content they contain, need to all be one one line. (Note: This wouldn't be a problem if browser manufacturers could write a parser that properly ignores newlines, but they don't seem to be able to.) The reason for this is layout control in DHTML pop-ups. I have no control over the design, so I'm stuck dealing with whatever evil has already been done. ;) Preferably I'd like to preserve the spacing in my XSL sheet (I don't care about the XML content currently), but I would also be perfectly happy if the entire document was all on one line, as with the XML serializer, since that should also fix the problem. BTW The XMLSerializer changes the content output type to 'text/xml' which triggers download dialogs so it won't work. I have searched the archives and all methods described therein (and duplicated below) seem to have no effect on the output. I am also not entirely clear on the parsing order (nor all the features of XSL) so if I'm headed off in the wrong direction or pursuing the impossible I'd appreciate a hint. Stripped down version of XSL sheet: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0"> <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" encoding="iso-8859-1"/> <xsl:template match="document"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <title><xsl:value-of select="title"/></title> ... </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" background="../images/header/ns3_bg.gif" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" onload="loadnav();init();"> ... <xsl:value-of select="content"/> ... </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Potential solutions: The most promising was: <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>. Inversely, I tried xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> as in: <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:output method="html" indent="no" encoding="iso-8859-1"/> which also seemed to have no effect. I also tried xml:space="preserve", but I believe that's intended more for my XML source than my stylesheet. I'm certain cocoon allows better control of the output document, but I'm at a loss for how to utilize it. Any pointers in the right direction, or any direction for that matter, would be much appreciated. Corey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
