[Xmlstar-devel] xsl:text in entity

[Ronny O. <ob...@vh...>]

Dear xmlstar-devel list,

sorry for bothering you, but I didn't find any useful hints via google, 
nor did I find anything in the xmlstarlet archieve.

I'de like to use the entity-technique for whitspace like it is described 
in http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/12/05/whitespace.html . But when using 
the <xsl:text> element inside of the entities (3rd last xsl-stylesheet), 
I'll receive the following output:

$ xml tr stylesheet.xsl employee.xml
namespace error : Namespace prefix xsl on text is not defined
<xsl:text>
         ^
namespace error : Namespace prefix xsl on text is not defined
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
         ^
09/01/1998JohnnyHerbert


I found a hint on 
http://techtonik.rainforce.org/2006/07/xslt-whitespaces-beautifying.html 
to ship around these errors, with the result of not seeing the 
"namespace error" output anymore, but still with a wrong format (there 
are no whitespaces between the three elements).

The xslt processor xsltproc did quite the same as xmlstarlet (1.0.1). 
Probably, because both are using the same library(?).

Xalan-C 1.10.0 (with Xerces version 2.7.0), another xslt processor, 
works fine with these files, it creates the expected output. But I can't 
use this processor, because it doesn't handle <exsl:document>, which I 
need in other stylesheets.

On http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/12/05/whitespace.html?page=2 an 
interessting comment is posted, which could point out a lack of 
xmlstarlet(?):

Sample problem <http://www.xml.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/414>
2002-02-11 07:12:07 Antonio del Pozzo [Reply] 
<http://www.xml.com/cs/user/create/cs_msg?x-lr=cs_msg/414&x-lr2=a/882>

The article is very interesting. Nevertheless, when try to execute the 
samples I get error that tell me "Reference to undeclared namespace 
prefix: 'xsl' ". I use MSXML 3.0 on W2K, what's wrong?
Thanks in advance
Antonio

Sample problem <http://www.xml.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/420>
2002-02-13 14:00:33 Bob DuCharme [Reply] 
<http://www.xml.com/cs/user/create/cs_msg?x-lr=cs_msg/420&x-lr2=a/882>

As I told Meili in a private e-mail, the example work properly with XSLT 
processors that completely conform to the XSLT Recommendation such as 
Xalan and Xerces, but Microsoft's processors don't always conform,and 
this is the kind of problem that can come up.


http://www.vbxml.com/xsl/XSLTRef.asp has a good chart showing where each 
release of the Microsoft processors are and aren't compliant. I don't 
know if there's anything about the elements used to control whitespace 
there.


Bob


So, does anyone got another hint or any explanation what's going wrong?
Probably Xalan-Java, the java version, works fine with these entities 
and also the <exsl:document> element. But I don't want to use it, 
because of...well...it's java ;)

Regards
Ronny

BTW: I ran all the transformations under Win XP in cygwin.