Re: output indentation once and for all

[Justin Hannus]

Viola! After several attempts at several different methods I found the most simplest solution with a combination of your last suggestion and something I found in a article somewhere else. What happens is that the processor will strip all nodes containing only whitespace (chars in the set {0x09, 0x0a, 0x0d, 0x20}), as excepted so nothing new here..... What we need to do is preserve them and then properly translate them from &#9; etc. to their unescaped equivalents. Again nothing new here but how do we achieve this when there are several methods that do not work?  With a pipelines similar to the below: <map:generate type="serverpages" src=""/> <map:transform src="">          <map:parameter name="assetsCacheServer" value="{config:assetsCacheServer}"/>          <map:parameter name="resourceCacheServer" value="{config:resourceCacheServer}"/>          <map:parameter name="area" value="{page-envelope:area}"/>          <map:parameter name="root" value="{request:contextPath}/{page-envelope:publication-id}/{page-envelope:area}"/> </map:transform> <map:transform src=""/> <map:serialize type="xhtml"/> So, there a 2 things that need to be done. (please refer to my first post for all lib versions) 1. The first stylesheet (xslt/lenya-dyn/wiredmag2xhtml.xsl) transforms our generated xml.  It contains the proper style of indentation we desire.  In the xsl root node *you need to declare* xml:space="preserve" like so: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XML/Transform   xml:space="preserve"> ..... 2. The second style sheet prepares our output for the front ends.  The thing you need to do here is *define a template that properly escapes your whitespace chars*.  Otherwise you'll end up with tons of &#9;'s and extra newlines where you don't want them <xsl:template match="text()">         <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="."/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="comment()">         <xsl:copy/> </xsl:template> Thats it.  In the above solution you do not need to "turn on" indentation or make a styleheet that does the indentation for you but simply make sure that whitespace is preserved during transformation and then properly unescapsed by another stylesheet before being serialized. HTH, -Justin Joerg Heinicke wrote: On 24.04.2006 17:18, Justin Hannus wrote: These are all the things I've read in several different places and tried several times with not luck :-( 1. <xsl:output> does not work. 2. <?cocoon-format?> pi's did not work or were just too hard to configure for indenting with little or no documentation. It's known that these both don't work. 3. Adding <indent>yes</indent> to XMLSerializer config does not do anything. That one should work in general. But from my experience you never get a really nicely indented XML from just setting this option. The only thing working is IMO setting it to <indent>no</indent> and to write a format.xsl doing the indentation (i.e. handling white spaces), which is not that complicated. Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Justin Hannus Software Engineer | Infrastructure | Lycos Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.lycos.com [781] 370 2988