Greetings,

I am trying to output an HTML document where leading spaces are significant. There are <Para> tags that have a "FirstLineIndent" attribute that can vary enough to not code individually for them.

The following code loops correctly, but I cannot get IE to recognize the leading spaces.

    <xsl:template match="Para">
        <p/>
        <xsl:choose> . . . there are other tests here

            <xsl:when test="@FirstLineIndent=*">

                <xsl:variable name="firstlineindent" select="@FirstLineIndent"/>
                <xsl:call-template name="for-loop">
                    <xsl:with-param name="count" select="1" />
                    <xsl:with-param name="indent" select="$firstlineindent" />
                </xsl:call-template>
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:when>

            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:template>

      <xsl:template name="for-loop">
        <xsl:param name="count" />
        <xsl:param name="indent" />
        <xsl:if test="$count &lt;= $indent">
            <xsl:text>#xa0;</xsl:text>
            <xsl:call-template name="for-loop">
                <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count + 1" />
                <xsl:with-param name="indent" select="$indent" />
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:template>

So the problem appears to be with the &xa0; character. I must code for IE parser, as that is what the clients are using.

I have tried all variations (or at least a lot) on different whitespace characters. Also have tried the disable output escaping directive, and an attempt at character maps.

Any thoughts on how to get these leading spaces to appear, ie. not have each paragraph show as left flush?

Thanks,
Dan

I've had no problem with this character. It won't necessarily output it as an entity, it will just be the non breaking space. As this forum can corrupt these in posting the actual value should be:
or --

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Thanks Joe. I noticed that I had left off the & above in my posting, but it is indeed in my code. Still no go.

It was working when I manually inserted the spaces, as in:

            <xsl:when test="@FirstLineIndent='7'">
                <xsl:text>#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;#xa0;</xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:when>

But since there are many possible values to indent, I went with the for-loop. That was when things went awry.

Is there any preference as to outputting the whitespace in a

<xsl:text>#xa0;</xsl:text>

block, or via a

<xsl:value-of select="#xa0;" />

statement? In my case neither is working at the moment, but for future reference on my part.

Thanks again for the reply,
Dan