[xsl] Re: Re: weird behavior with last()

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>]

Aha! Maybe one day I will finally remember all the rules and defaults for
whitespace stripping...

Thanks, Dimitre.

Tom P

[Dimitre Novatchev]

> Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>
> > I got a different result after I copied your code by cut-and-paste.
> >
> > With Saxon, I always got the trailing "|", with msxml3 I never got it,
> > whether or not I put the </MainMenu> onthe same line as </MainMenuItem>
or
> > not.
> >
> > Here, I am using Instant Saxon 6.2.2 running in XML Cooktop.
> >
> > Sounds like it's time for Mike Kay...
>
> It's quite clear:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>  is equivalent to:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>
> This ***includes*** whitespace-only nodes.
>
> The difference in the behaviour of MSXML and Saxon is due to the fact that
by
> default the MSXML parser strips all whitespace-only nodes -- this makes
the last
> "SubMenuItem" also the last child node of its parent and then the
condition in the
> "xsl:if" is not true -- no " | " is added.
>



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