Article:		Controlling Whitespace, Part Three
Subject:		White spaces not outputted in printout
Date:		2006-06-28 19:12:04
From:		KermanMistry
Hi, I'm using a style sheet to format my xml file. The xml file contains the following line: <tmp_field_one> Here is some text after 4 tabs</tmp_field_one> and the xsl file contains the following line to render this text on the screen: <div style="left: 0.0ex; position: absolute"><xsl:value-of select="./tmp_field_one"/></div> Even though there are 4 tab characters prefixing the text, the output on the screen as well as the printout shows the text without any prefixing tabs. The same happens if I replace tabs with spaces or a combination of both. Please help me with printing the tabs and spaces as they are in the xml file. Many thanks.

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• White spaces not outputted in printout
  2006-06-29 06:17:46 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
  
  An XML parser usually converts all white space on either side of a tag (all carriage returns, tabs, line feeds, and spacebar spaces) to a single space, because elaborate combinations of whitespace characters aren't supposed to play a role in XML documents--if they did, cross-platform compatibility would suffer a great deal. See the introduction to Part 1 of this series (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/whitespace.html).

  
  Bob