[lxml-dev] Overriding whitespace normalization under XSLT

[Nathan R. Yergler]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.  Sounds like there's not
some secret knob to turn (or at least not one that the group knows
about).  I did find that passing the result through tidy formats it
correctly, so that's the interim fix for me.

Thanks,

Nathan


On 3/17/07, Lee Brown <leebrown at leebrown.org> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> With regards to the snippet below, the "missing" space is valid XHTML but
> not valid HTML according specifications preceding HTML 4.01.
> Provided that it won't break your consumer's browser agents, setting the
> DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 Strict or to XHTML 1.0 Strict and omitting the leading
> XML declaration should cause this to render correctly in most modern
> browsers.
>
> If you must support older browsers, try adding a closing </img> tag.
> Technically, that's invalid HTML as well, but most of the older browsers
> will parse it anyway.
>
> Best Regards,
> Lee E. Brown
> (leebrown at leebrown.org)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lxml-dev-bounces at codespeak.net [mailto:lxml-dev-bounces at codespeak.net]
> On Behalf Of Stefan Behnel
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:33 AM
> To: Nathan R. Yergler
> Cc: lxml-dev at codespeak.net
> Subject: Re: [lxml-dev] Overriding whitespace normalization under XSLT
>
> Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> > The part that's problematic is this line:
> >
> >               <a rel="license" href="{$license-uri}"><img alt="Creative
> Commons
> > License" style="border-width:0" src="{$license-button}" /></a><br/>
> >
> > Note that there is a space between the closing quote of the src
> > attribute on the image tag and the "/>" closing bracket.  When we
> > process the transform, we consistently end up with
> >
> >               <a rel="license" href="..."><img alt="Creative Commons
> License"
> > style="border-width:0" src="..."/></a><br/>
> >
> > (note the space has been removed)
>
> That's perfectly well-formed XHTML. But rumour has it that some browsers
> can't handle that. It's just not old-style HTML-ish enough.
>
> Stefan
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