Hi, Kapil. Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2007-08-13 10:18:58 AM: > Am converting HTML to XML using XALAN tranformer. The HTML contains element > having attribute value with white spaces, for example > <span attr1="There is double space here"> > The attr1 value contains two white spaces. When I convert this to XML using > XSLT, the extra white space is stripped. . How can I preserve extra > whitespaces for attribute value for all elements. The white spaces are > preserved if I do the tranformation using XML Spy.
Is your input HTML or XHTML? If it's HTML, in what form are you getting the input to the Xalan? Is the attribute name here really attr1 or is that just an example? I'm just speculating that the attribute-value normalization rules of XML might be getting applied; the declared type of an attribute would have an impact. According to section 3.3.3 of the XML Recommendation,[1] "If the attribute type is not CDATA, then the XML processor MUST further process the normalized attribute value by discarding any leading and trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing sequences of space (#x20) characters by a single space (#x20) character." Thanks, Henry [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#AVNormalize ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henry Zongaro XSLT Processors Development IBM SWS Toronto Lab T/L 969-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
