dear sir
in my xslt, i want to convert this xml file, but in the output file i am not getting the space between "</xref> <italic>"

"<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b4">Ferguson (1995)</xref> <italic>Essay on the History of Civil Society</italic>"

please help me

thanks
Rajashekhara

I suspect you are using a Microsoft parser (or possibly the Altova product, which mimics Microsoft). This parser defaults to removing whitespace text nodes before the transformation starts. There are API options to inhibit this behaviour (sorry, I don't remember the details) when loading the XML document into memory. Unfortunately there's no way of doing so if the transformation is initiated using the xml-stylesheet processing instruction.

If you have the option to do so, the simplest solution is to use a different XSLT processor.

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dear sir,

i am using saxon 8, on windows.


thanks
rajashekhara

In that case please show a complete (but minimal!) source document and stylesheet to illustrate the problem. Perhaps you're just not copying the space to the output.

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Michael Kay
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actually i am trying to convert xml file to latex file, here is the xsl and xml code

XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output use-character-maps="iso9573-2003" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="xref">

<xsl:text>\authorcite{</xsl:text>

<xsl:apply-templates/>

<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>

</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="italic">

<xsl:text>\textit{</xsl:text>

<xsl:apply-templates/>

<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


XML:

<fn id="fn5"><label>5</label><p>See, e.g., 1, p 279; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b4">Ferguson (1995)</xref> <italic>Essay on the History of Civil Society</italic>, I.5, pp 30&ndash;1.</p></fn>

thanks
Rajashekhara

The whitespace is being removed from the input because you have asked for it to be removed, by writing

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

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