Sylvain Wallez wrote:

> Morrison, John wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of using a special attribute to direct white space 
> filtering. The xml spec provides the xml:space attribute which can have 
> the values "default" or "preserve".
> 
> The xml spec says that when a document has no DTD, the default is to 
> keep whitespace. We could violate this a bit and say that in an XSP the 
> default is to strip whitespaces. Or, if we do not want to violate the 
> spec, we can use a new xsp:space attribute, but we then have to take 
> care or the interactions between this attribute and any xml:space in the 
> XSP document.
> 
> Implementation of this filter could take place in 
> XSPMarkupLanguage.PreProcessFilter.
> 
> Thoughts ?


Can't we test to see if the length of the content is longer than 0?

<xsl:if test="string-length(string(.)) > 0">
   <!-- do the real stuff -->
</xsl:if>




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