space creeping into <td> elements

mountainbiker · January 27th, 2004, 01:21 PM

Basically, my XSLT reads

Code:

<td><img...></td>

however, the HTML output reads

Code:

<td>
    <img...>
</td>

Now, if <xsl:output> is set to indent=no, then the problem is cured. Unfortunately, I require this "pretty-printing" for human-readability of the beginning meta elements.

This "space creeping" I know is a problem of HTML; however, is there a clean/simply way to preserve the formatting actually like the first example above?

mountainbiker · January 27th, 2004, 05:46 PM

I created a template to handle the output of each TR element. Here I wrap the various parts of the line with CDATA. Sort of messy. Another way I thought would be just call a JavaScript function passing the necessary params and then document.write the table out, but it sounds like another messy way.

joefawcett · January 28th, 2004, 07:07 AM

If you set the indent to no but force new lines etc. in the top you should be okay. How do the users view the meta parts, if just a text editor then use

Code:

<xsl:text>#x0a;</xsl:text>

to put a line feed in.

Joe (MVP - xml)

mountainbiker · January 28th, 2004, 03:30 PM

Thanks Joe. I will have to consider setting indent=no if this problem creeps in other places. For now, I have a whole lot of inter-company exchanged meta data, so I went with the CDATA which looks something like

Code:

<xsl:template name="output-td">
    <xsl:param name="..." select="..."/>  
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<td><img ]]></xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$..."/>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[.../></td>]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

Thank you for your response.