Re: p:inline and ignore whitespaces

Florent,

I would say "overkill"

If you need to keep track of whitespace subtleties you probably have
to put the content in another file and use <p:document or <p:load

Regards,

Xmlizer

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I don't remember to have seen this question before.  Did you
> consider for p:inline a mechanism like the whitespaces handling in
> XSLT?  I can imagine use of p:inline to store input of a step directly
> into the pipeline definition, while wanting to properly indent the
> inline document, even if the document should not contain those
> whitespace.
>
>  For instance, if I give the following input:
>
>    <p:inline>
>       <dummy/>
>    </p:inline>
>    <p:inline>
>       <foobar/>
>    </p:inline>
>
> to an XSLT step that contains the following template rule:
>
>    <xsl:template match="/">
>       <xsl:copy-of select="collection()"/>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> the result is (the '|' character shows the column 0):
>
>    |
>    |            <dummy/>
>    |
>    |            <foobar/>
>    |
>
>  That is, an text node, then an element node, then a text node...  I
> wonder if it is really what is wanted, instead of simply a sequence of
> two element nodes:
>
>    |<dummy/><foobar/>
>
>  Regards,
>
> --
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/
>
>

Received on Monday, 3 November 2008 13:09:07 UTC