Hi Aankhen,
Woohoo! I figured it out. solution below.
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Here’s my xsl file:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; version="1.0">
<xsl:import
href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="para[@role = 'box']">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
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I don’t see any indentation here; there’s just a newline within the
‘xsl:text’ element. BTW, you don’t need to declare the ‘fo’ namespace
unless you’re using it.
Oops. Copy and paste error. Sorry about that. Thanks on the 'fo'.
I've removed it.
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Are you sure that this is a DocBook thing that you’re talking about?
It sounds to me like you’re referring to the way HTML collapses
whitespace: outside of the ‘pre’ element, any sequence of whitespace
characters is rendered as a single space, while any leading/trailing
whitespace is trimmed.[1] You have a few options for preserving
whitespace:
1. The ‘pre’ element, which will render all whitespace exactly as it
appears in the source. It will also use a monospaced font and only
break lines where you break them in the source, so it’s not very
well-suited for your needs.
2. Non-breaking spaces ( in HTML,  or  in any
SGML-derived language), which are never collapsed by the browser.
Something like “ ” will be rendered as “ ”.
You could make every space a non-breaking space when you’re trying to
maintain a layout, but that would lead to unfortunate consequences
since, as the name indicates, line breaks are not allowed there.
3. CSS: set the ‘para.propagates.style’ parameter to ‘1’ so that the
resultant HTML paragraphs have ‘box’ for their class names, then add
whatever indentation or other styling you’d like to your CSS, such as:
.box { margin-left: 0.5em; }
For html output I do #3 already. and yes, it works quite well. :)
Yes, the whitespace was being collapsed. <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"> was what I needed to do.
Here's my entire xls file:
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:import
href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="para[@role = 'box']">
<xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">     </xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><br></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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I've been trying to figure that out for, well, longer than I want to admit.
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!
Matt
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