Jonathan Revusky wrote:
Robert Koberg wrote:
Daniel Dekany wrote:
No template language can be too good at that... Simply, the basic idea
of a template languages is incompatible with strict white-space control.
You get strict whitespace control with XSL/XML :)
I am pretty sure that XSL/XML has the same problems wrt whitespace that
template languages do.
No, you have several options. In the XML source you have
xml:space="preserve".
In XSL you have:
<xsl:output indent="yes | no" .../>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <!-- *=all-elements or you could specify
exactly which elements -->
<xsl:preserve-space elements="script textarea"/>
<xsl:stylesheet xml:space="default | preserve" .../>
When outputting text you can use entities to place linebreaks, tabs,
spaces, etc. You can also use:
<xsl:text>This is a
linebreak</xsl:text>
or:
<xsl:text>This </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$variable"/>
<xsl:text> is on one line.</xsl:text>
When setting output for certain methods like HTML or XHTML it follows
the DTD/Schema rules associated.
To me, the semantics are clear. I have trouble understanding why people
find it hard to understand (but they do...).
Oh.... I forgot something. XSLT is not really readable by mortal humans
anyway, so maybe the point is kind of moot....
Many humans like the way XSLT reads. YMMV.
-Rob
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