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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Solution to funky TOCs in HTML Help...
/ "Bradford, Denis" <denisb@rational.com> was heard to say: | >You should always have in mind that XML (and thus XML version of | >DocBook) is much more sensitive to spaces and newlines than most typical | >SGML appliacations. For example: | | According to my XSLT book, XSLT has lots of ways to control the generation | of white-space nodes - elements like space, preserve-space, and strip-space | elements - in contrast to HTML where the spec is not very precise, and so | different browsers handle whitespace differently. The DocBook stylesheets apply preserve-space and strip-space appropriately. This is why whitespace between paragraphs is irrelevant. But whitespace in an element that may contain mixed content can't be stripped...it might be what the author intended! So <xsl:strip-space elements="title"/> would be wrong. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | One stops being a child when one http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | realizes that telling one's Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | trouble does not make it | better.--Cesare Pavese
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