Re: [xsl] Unanticipated Results from text()

["Manfred Staudinger" <manfred.staudinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/02/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I rely heavily on leading blanks of to original text.
> yes but they are not affected by white space stripping, as they are in
> the same text node as non-white space. mxsml's stripping, like xslt's
> only affects text nodes that are all-white.
This certainly contributed to my confusion. But I have to admit, not to
have tested the example given above: indent="yes" or indent="no" does
_not_ make any difference.

> msxml doesn't actually remove the text nodes, it leaves a secret marker
> recording that a text node was there (but not its value), and when
> serialising the node, it (usually) inserts a space at that point.
> This means that of you xsl:copy-of a branch of the input tree, very
> often space appears to be preserved in the result as these hidden
> markers get copied, but if you apply-templates and acually costruct a
> new tree rather than copying the original, all record of the origial
> space is lost.
>
> an MS developer writes about this in this old thread
>
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200307/msg00143.html
Your additional remarks saved my day. I have other dubious cases
which I now hope to understand. Thanks,

Manfred