Dimitry - Keep reading in that section with the paragraph starting "For source documents, ...".
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Voytenko, Dimitry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:18 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Bug in Xalan 2.4.0 with position() > > > Hi, > > What about this quot from XSLT 1.0 specification: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip > > <quot> > 3.4 Whitespace Stripping > > After the tree for a source document or stylesheet document > has been constructed, but before it is otherwise processed by > XSLT, some text nodes are stripped. A text node is never > stripped unless it contains only whitespace characters. > Stripping the text node removes the text node from the tree. > The stripping process takes as input a set of element names > for which whitespace must be preserved. The stripping process > is applied to both stylesheets and source documents, but the > set of whitespace-preserving element names is determined > differently for stylesheets and for source documents. .... > .... </quot> > > It looks like specification states, that all ignorable white > spaces are to be stripped before XSLT transformation starts, > unless it's defined otherwise. > > Thanks, > Dmitry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Kesselman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 14:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug in Xalan 2.4.0 with position() > > > On Friday, 09/20/2002 at 04:40 AST, "Scott Moore" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > parser.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include- > ignorable-whit > > espace", true); > > > > Shouldn't this remove all whitespace nodes? I do the transform > > directly > on > > the already parsed DOM. > > That's a Xerces question rather than a Xalan question, but: > > 1) You said include=true, which is the opposite of what you > seem to want. > > 2) Ignorable whitespace is a bad term. It's really > "whitespace in element > content". This is only recognized if you know what is and > isn't element > content -- in other words, if you have validated the document > against a > DTD (or _maybe_ a schema, though schema validation tends to > annotate the > Infoset rather than changing it and thus may not affect us > until XSLT 2.0 > adds schema awareness... and maybe not then). > > ______________________________________ > Joe Kesselman / IBM Research >
