John Gordon wrote:
> My XSLT files have many occurrences of this general pattern:
> 
> <a>
> 	<xsl:attribute name="href">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="xyz" />
> 	</xsl:attribute>
> </a>
> 
> When I execute an XSL transform, the resulting HTML looks like this:
> 
> <a href="xyz%0A%09%09">
> 
> ... because *everything* between the opening and closing attribute tags
> is being included, even the carriage return after the opening attribute
> tag and the tabs before the value-of tag.
> 
> Is there a way to avoid this behavior?  I tried adding
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> at the top of the file, but it appeared to
> have no effect.

Which XSLT processor are you using?
For the stylesheet itself (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip) "the set 
of whitespace-preserving element names consists of just xsl:text" so the 
white space between those xsl element should not result in white space 
in the result tree.

Obviously the snippet you posted can be reduced to
<a href="{xyz}">
</a>
using an literal result element and an attribute value template but what 
you have should not result in whitespace problems.

Are you sure the whitespace and the escaping does not result from 
evaluating xyz and applying HTML href escaping?




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