Subject: [xsl] Re: Indentation question From: iwantto keepanon <iwanttokeepanon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 03:20:55 +0400 (MSD) |
"knocte " <knocte@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>When you run a transformation and get breaks and spaces in the XML, >>that is no different than than your HTML analogy. Whomever _consumes_ >>the XML needs to treat newlines as spaces. Which keeps to your >>HTML/browser analogy. > Well, actually the thing is a web application that is consumed by a > browser, but I see that giving the response in only one line, like it > was "compressed", is shorter, cleaner and thus, better (I know that the > browser will ignore them too). You chose to add spaces and breaks to your HTML to make it more readable and the bandwidth apparently was not a concern then. Since XML is also supposed to be readable, why insist on 1 line XML file? The sequences: A: "this word" B: "thatnword" are exactly the same length. So A (1 line) is not more "compressed" than B (2 lines). Sure you may save a few spaces it you delete indentation spaces, but that is probably nominal. I dont necessarily buy "shorter, cleaner and thus, better". If I have an XML file that I need to view or edit, then I like to have proper indentation for readability. If the XML is only going to be short lived and consumed by a computer, then I make sure it is at least well-formed (if not valid) and pretty much leave the spacing up to the tools ... they usually do the right thing(tm). > I think that I am wondering if a solution to this would be that the > second stylesheet that process the result of the first one should > normalize-space all tags that contain text unless the ones with an > attribute like notnormalize="false". What do you think? Is it possible? Sure it is. In fact, there are a lot of ways to do this. Here's one way off the top of my head (I'm sure the list can supply 100 others!): <xsl:template match="text()[ not(parent::*/@notnormalize='false') ]"> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)" /> </xsl:template> Have fun, -- Rodman
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