[DAISY] Updated: XSLT FAQs

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Updated on: 9/22/05 1:21:34 PM
Updated by: Helma van der Linden

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    <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org/community/mail-lists.html">other resources for
    XSLT,</a> specifically, the XSL FAQ and discussion lists.</p>
    
--- <p>The long answer is that you need to use the XSLT function</p>
+++ <p>The long answer is that you need to use the XSLT function
+++ <tt>normalize-space()</tt> whenever you want to rely on the content of an xml
+++ element.</p>
    
--- <pre>normalize-space()</pre>
--- 
--- <p>whenever you want to rely on the content of an xml element.</p>
--- 
    <p>For example, if your application is producing some Javascript code in your
    HTML output, then you might mistakenly try to use the following construct in
    your XSL stylesheet:</p>
    
--- <pre>alert('&lt;xsl:value-of select="message"/&gt;');</pre>
+++ <pre>alert('&lt;xsl:value-of select="message"/&gt;');
+++ </pre>
    
    <p>which will produce:</p>
    
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    ');
    </pre>
    
--- <p>The line-endings in the content of your "message" element will cause
+++ <p>The line-endings in the content of your "<tt>message</tt>" element will cause
    javascript errors. Instead, do this:</p>
    
    <pre>alert('&lt;xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(message)"/&gt;');
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          &lt;/xsl:element&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
--- 
    </pre>
    
    <p>Another approach is to extend your serializer component, described
--- <a href="faq-serializers.html#faq-4">here</a>.</p>
+++ <a href="daisy:710">here</a>.</p>
    
    <h2>What's "wrong" with use of the document() function in Cocoon?</h2>
    
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    Xalan is inefficient. See:
    <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4257">Issue 4257</a>
    and <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28341">Issue
--- 28341</a>. Until this bug is fixed, consider using Saxon instead for document()
+++ 28341</a> Until this bug is fixed, consider using Saxon instead for document()
    function-related parsing needs.</p>
    
    <p>For other aggregation/inclusion approaches, please stay tuned for
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