I'd believe that. I'll even file it as a bug. Thanks for identifying
the specific case where Msxml is dropping the whitespace.
-derek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: Derek Denny-Brown
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Handling of significant whitespace in .NET
XmlReade
> r
>
>
> I wrote
>
> > But since I failed to reproduce this now, I'll have to eat my words
and
> > confirm that
> >
> > > Xslt should still
> > > be acting like there was a single space there
>
>
> I ate my words too soon.
> If you have a _really_ trivial stylesheet that does copy the entire
> document in a single operation then your magic spaces do appear in the
> output, but if you do the usual thing of having an "identity template"
> that walks the tree, they go.
>
> ie.xml:
> =======
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ie.xsl"?>
> <p>
> <b>this</b> <i>is</i> <span class="zzz">bad</span>
> </p>
>
>
> ie.xsl:
> ======
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0"
> >
>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <html>
> <head><title>test</title></head>
> <body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="*">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> voila: No spaces.
>
> David
>
>
>
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