Re: Problems handling end-of-line character

[david_n_bertoni]

>     I'm having trouble processing the end of line character (&#x20)
> with XSLT. Here is my testcase :

U+0020 is not the end-of-line character.

>                <xsl:template match="/">
>                                <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var1)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
>                                                <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(1)</xsl:message>
>                                </xsl:if>
>                                <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var2)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
>                                                <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(2)</xsl:message>
>                                </xsl:if>
>                </xsl:template>

This is because of attribute value normalization:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/#AVNormalize

The second parameter to the contains() function is being normalized from 
U+000A to U+0020, so by the time the XSLT processor sees the test 
attribute, it sees a string with a single space character as the second 
parameter.

Try the following template instead of yours:

                 <xsl:template match="/">
                                 <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var1)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
                                                 <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(1)</xsl:message>
                                 </xsl:if>
                                 <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var2)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
                                                 <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(2)</xsl:message>
                                 </xsl:if>
                                 <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var1)/a/text(),'&#x0A;')">
                                                 <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(3)</xsl:message>
                                 </xsl:if>
                                 <xsl:if 
test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var2)/a/text(),'&#x0A;')">
                                                 <xsl:message>Contains 
EOL(4)</xsl:message>
                                 </xsl:if>
                 </xsl:template>

which results in the following output:

file:///V:/test/Stephen/test1.xsl; Line #32; Column #23; Contains EOL(2)
file:///V:/test/Stephen/test1.xsl; Line #35; Column #23; Contains EOL(3)
file:///V:/test/Stephen/test1.xsl; Line #38; Column #23; Contains EOL(4)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I think you are either confused about attribute value normalization, or 
how entities work.

Dave