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Re: Query
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Query
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:25:06 -0400
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/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
| I don't believe the DocBook XSL stylesheets are generating
| those spaces. When I use xsltproc on those tags,
| no extra spaces are generated. Is this perhaps a
| bug with the way IE5 handles the stylesheet
| processing?
I think it may be. I vaguely recall that when I was working on the
XMLSpec stylesheets for the W3C, someone reported that IE5 turned
<xsl:template match="XXX">
<tag>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tag>
</xsl:template>
into "<tag> content</tag>" (or something like that) but
<xsl:template match="XXX">
<tag><xsl:apply-templates/></tag>
</xsl:template>
rendered correctly. This is a bug, plain and simple. I have no plans
to change the stylesheets to work around this bug. The former style
is more readable (IMHO) and easier to maintain.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | If a little knowledge is
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | dangerous, where is the man who
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | has so much as to be out of
| danger?--T. H. Huxley
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