XML Whitespace - Revision history

John P. McCaskey: /* Bug in eXist */

2017-01-12T20:44:50Z

‎Bug in eXist

John P. McCaskey at 20:35, 12 January 2017

2017-01-12T20:35:06Z

John P. McCaskey: Corrected an error where /forename was supposed to be /surname.

2016-05-13T20:51:18Z

Corrected an error where /forename was supposed to be /surname.

Kshawkin: added section heading for clarity

2015-03-10T14:46:48Z

added section heading for clarity

Mathias Göbel: issue with eXistdb

2015-03-10T10:35:32Z

issue with eXistdb

Jensopetersen: presenting a way to normalize whitespace "in the TEI fashion" with XQuery

2014-08-07T20:48:32Z

presenting a way to normalize whitespace "in the TEI fashion" with XQuery

Rahtz: /* XSLT Normalization Code */

2013-11-16T16:56:16Z

‎XSLT Normalization Code

Rahtz: /* XSLT Normalization Code */

2013-08-07T13:59:07Z

‎XSLT Normalization Code

Rahtz: /* XSLT Normalization Code */

2013-08-07T10:28:59Z

‎XSLT Normalization Code

Rahtz: /* XSLT Normalization Code */

2013-08-06T22:28:11Z

‎XSLT Normalization Code

@@ Line 417: / Line 417: @@
 == Bug in [[eXist]] ==
-According to the [http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Whitespace-handling-using-transform-td4665182.html eXist-db mailing list], there is an issue in the software, that causes wrong whitespace treatment.
+According to the [http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Whitespace-handling-using-transform-td4665182.html eXist-db mailing list], there is a bug in eXist that causes incorrect processing of whitespace.
 == External Links ==

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 TEI has robust features for specifying space, gaps, line breaks, and related aspects of the space between text. But TEI is an XML vocabulary, and XML itself, and programs that read and process XML files, have their own ways to deal with what they call whitespace, that is, space, tab, carriage return and linefeed characters. Sometimes the standards, constraints, and conventions imposed by XML cause problems for TEI encodings and for programs that process TEI files.
-This article explains interactions between TEI and XML's treatment of whitespace and concludes with recommendations for both producers of TEI encodings and authors of programs that process TEI encodings.
+This article explains interactions between TEI’s and XML’s treatment of whitespace and concludes with recommendations for both producers of TEI encodings and authors of programs that process TEI encodings.
 ==Where XML Considers Whitespace to be Significant==

@@ Line 30: / Line 30: @@
   <span style="background-color:#C3E6FC; margin-left:1em">    &lt;forename&gt;Jo&lt;/forename&gt;</span>
   <span style="background-color:#C3E6FC; margin-left:1em">    &lt;forename&gt;Ann&lt;/forename&gt;</span>
-  <span style="background-color:#C3E6FC; margin-left:1em">    &lt;surname&gt;Henry&lt;/forename&gt;</span>
+  <span style="background-color:#C3E6FC; margin-left:1em">    &lt;surname&gt;Henry&lt;/surname&gt;</span>
   <span style="background-color:#C3E6FC; margin-left:1em">&lt;/persName&gt;</span>

@@ Line 414: / Line 414: @@
    };
 </pre>
 According to the [http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Whitespace-handling-using-transform-td4665182.html eXist-db mailing list], there is an issue in the software, that causes wrong whitespace treatment.

@@ Line 414: / Line 414: @@
    };
 </pre>
 == External Links ==

@@ Line 366: / Line 366: @@
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>
 </pre>
@@ Line 375: / Line 422: @@
 [[Category:XSLT]]
 [[Category:Markup]]
 [[Category:Recommended Practice]]

@@ Line 337: / Line 337: @@
 <pre>
      <xsl:template match="text()">
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when
@@ Line 384: / Line 345: @@
          <!-- Retain one leading space if node isn't first, has
 	     non-space content, and has leading space.-->
-         <xsl:if test="not($first) and
+         <xsl:if test="position()!=1 and          matches(.,'^\s') and          normalize-space()!=''">
            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
          </xsl:if>
@@ Line 392: / Line 351: @@
          <xsl:choose>
            <!-- node is an only child, and has content but it's all space -->
-           <xsl:when test="$first and not ($more) and
+           <xsl:when test="last()=1 and string-length()!=0 and      normalize-space()=''">
-			  string-length()!=0 and
+            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            </xsl:when>
            <!-- node isn't last, isn't first, and has trailing space -->
-           <xsl:when test="not($first) and $more and matches(.,'\s$')">
+           <xsl:when test="position()!=1 and position()!=last() and matches(.,'\s$')">
-	    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            </xsl:when>
            <!-- node isn't last, is first, has trailing space, and has non-space content   -->
-           <xsl:when test="$first and $more and matches(.,'\s$') and
+           <xsl:when test="position()=1 and matches(.,'\s$') and normalize-space()!=''">
-			  normalize-space()!=''">
+            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
            </xsl:when>
          </xsl:choose>

@@ Line 379: / Line 379: @@
        <xsl:when
 	  test="ancestor::*[@xml:space][1]/@xml:space='preserve'">
-         <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
+         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>