/ "Bradford, Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| >You should always have in mind that XML (and thus XML version of
| >DocBook) is much more sensitive to spaces and newlines than most typical
| >SGML appliacations. For example:
|
| According to my XSLT book, XSLT has lots of ways to control the generation
| of white-space nodes - elements like space, preserve-space, and strip-space
| elements - in contrast to HTML where the spec is not very precise, and so
| different browsers handle whitespace differently.
The DocBook stylesheets apply preserve-space and strip-space appropriately.
This is why whitespace between paragraphs is irrelevant. But whitespace
in an element that may contain mixed content can't be stripped...it might
be what the author intended! So
<xsl:strip-space elements="title"/>
would be wrong.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | One stops being a child when one
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | realizes that telling one's
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | trouble does not make it
| better.--Cesare Pavese
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