Re: [Xtf-user] Whitespace in dynaXML output

[John A. W. <ja...@in...>]

Tamara,

I came across the problem a while back and it was raised on the  
list.  I can't remember all the details.  But try searching the list  
archives, and I'll see if I have any other non-list emails about it.

John
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On Jul 11, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Tamara Lopez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using XTF 1.6.1, and have noticed that significant whitespace
> between nodes is dropped in some cases when XML is transformed to
> HTML for delivery by dynaXML.
>
> I have confirmed the problem in instances when nodes appear
> consecutively with no text in between them, for example:
>
> <add>Proved transitorily fr</add> <orig reg="From">ffrom</orig> <abbr
> expan="the">ye</abbr>
>
> The spaces between the add, orig, and abbr tags are meaningful, and
> should be preserved in the HTML output.  Instead, the output is:
>
> Proved transitorily frffromye
>
> Thinking this had something to do with the xslt, I experimented with
> xsl:preserve-space, and altering the XML format from XML (to support
> xhtml) to HTML.  No change produced any effect in the HTML output.
>
> Next I ran the transformation in Saxon 6.5.5 and Saxon 8B outside of
> XTF with the data that is passed through the preFilter and the
> stylesheets referenced by dynaXML.  These are XSLT 1.0 stylesheets
> developed in-house to process TEI documents.  This works, producing
> the expected output:
>
> Proved transitorily fr ffrom ye
>
> Incidentally, the portion of the documents in which these node
> combinations occur are not currently indexed by the textIndexer,
> according to the examples given in the Preventing Text From Being
> Indexed section of the XTF Programming Guide.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this behavior, or can anyone provide me
> with information about other tweaks I have not considered in XSLT
> whitespace handling that might work here?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Tamara
>
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