[xsl] question on line breaks / chess

Hello,

in the past I created quite some chess animations using shell scripting,
netpbm tools and gifsicle, see eg:
http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/chess/en/sct_map.html


Now I tried to do chess diagrams with XSLT.
Since it should work in browsers I am bound to XSLT 1.0.

The position is stored in board.xml, and the transform is board.xsl.
The stylesheet is referenced by <?xml-stylesheet ...?> in board.xml.

The display of board.xml is not nice because of additional vertical
spacing, but running "xsltproc board.xsl board.xml >board.html" and
viewing board.html all is fine:
http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/xsl-list/chess/board.xml
http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/xsl-list/chess/board.html


Now I have three questions:
1) How can I inspect the output of the transformation in the browser?
   "View source" does not help since it shows the XML input.

2) How can I make the output of the browser transformation similar to
   that of xsltproc?

   board.html looks like this, all in a single line (split into many
   lines here for readybility, only):
   <html><table border="1"><tr><td><img src="gif/brw.gif"><img src="gif/
   bnb.gif"><img src="gif/bbw.gif"><img src="gif/bqb.gif"><img src="gif/
   bkw.gif"><img src="gif/bbb.gif"><img src="gif/bnw.gif"><img src="gif/
   brb.gif"><br><img src="gif/bpb.gif">...
   ...<img src="gif/wrw.gif"><br></td></tr></table></html>

3) Is there a better way than having template matching "f" with mode in
   order to handle field background color appropriately?

  ...
  <xsl:template match="row">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="(position() mod 2)=0">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="f" mode="w"/><br/>?
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="f" mode="b"/><br/>?
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="f" mode="w">
    <xsl:call-template name="img">>
      <xsl:with-param name="pos" select="position()+0"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="f" mode="b">
    <xsl:call-template name="img">>
      <xsl:with-param name="pos" select="position()+1"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>
  ...



Mit besten Gr|_en / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
Developer, XML Compiler
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