On Sep 11, 11:30 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> jen_desi...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > I am using Word 2003 and converting the word doc into xml.  You can
> > apply a xsl to when saving to xml from word.  I want to be able to add
> > cdata to the cc node. I need to preserve the spacing between the nodes
> > as they are part of sentences.
>
> Word uses MSXML 5 for XSLT transformations, unfortunately MSXML strips
> white space from source documents in a way not compliant with the
> XML/XSLT specifications.
> Using
>    <cc xml:space="preserve">
> in your source documents should fix that.
>
> Fixing the stylesheet is not possible, it does the proper things with
> white space text nodes between elements but unfortunately with MSXML
> does not get to process them.
> If you use MSXML's API to load XML then it is also possible to set
> preserveWhitespace to true before loading an XML document but I don't
> know how you would do that within Word, unless you used VBA.
>
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>
>         Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

The <cc xml:space="preserve"> worked perfectly.  Thanks!!!!