Handling of whitespaces

[Thomas Börkel]

HI!

Suppose you have this XML:

<root>
  <one>1</one>
  <two>2</two>
  <three>4</three>
</root>


And this XSL:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">

  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:value-of select="one" />
    <xsl:value-of select="two" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="three='3'">
        <xsl:value-of select="three" />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        isn't three
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


Now, if you apply the XSL to the XML, you get:

12
        isn't three


The "1" and "2" are being appended without spaces or LFs, the text is not. This 
is inconsistent. Now change the value of <three> to "3" in the XML. Now you get:

123

So, this time no spaces or LFs.

Is this supposed to be that way or is it a bug?

Using Xerces 2.2.0 and Xalan 2.3.1 with JDK 1.4.1.

Regards,
Thomas