At Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:52:08 +0200,
Thomas Scheffler wrote:
> 
> Am 09.07.2014 16:09, schrieb Vicky Phillips:
> > Hi,
> > We seem to be losing the whitespace when formating xml e.g.
> > 
> > <nonSort>Yr </nonSort>
> > <title>Annibynwr</title>
> > 
> > becomes
> > 
> > <nonSort>Yr</nonSort>
> > <title>Annibynwr</title>
> > 
> > Any suggestions as to what we should do in order to retain this whitespace?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> try this:
> 
> <nonSort xml:space="preserve">Yr </nonSort>
> 
> It should work this way. But it finally depends on the quality of your
> XML formatting tool.
> 

I'm pretty sure that @xml:space does not help here, either. This
attribute is also about whitespace-only nodes.

The question is not: "What should we do to retain this whitespace?" but
rather "Why is trailing the whitespace removed in the first place?". 

Apply the following XSL:

,----
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
| <xsl:transform version="1.0"
|                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
|   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
|   <xsl:template match="node()">
|     <xsl:copy>
|       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
|     </xsl:copy>
|   </xsl:template>
| </xsl:transform>
`----

To this XML:

,----
| <foo>
|   <bar>Foobar </bar>
| </foo>
`----

For Saxon-HE 9.4.0.4N you get:

,----
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><foo><bar>Foobar </bar></foo>
`----

With @xml:space

,----
| <foo xml:space="preserve">
|   <bar>Foobar </bar>
| </foo>
`----

For Saxon-HE 9.4.0.4N you get:

,----
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><foo>
|   <bar>Foobar </bar>
| </foo>
`----

The whitespace-only nodes are preserved.

HTH,
  -- David

> regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 
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