xsl:preserve-space Element

Preverves whitespace in a document.

<xsl:strip-space
  elements = tokens />

Attributes

elements

Required. White-space separated list of name tests.

Element Information

Remarks

<xsl:preserve-space> is a whitespace preserving element and has an elements attribute whose value is a whitespace-separated list of name tests. Initially, the set of whitespace-preserving element names contains all element names. If an element name matches a name test in an <xsl:strip-space> element, then it is removed from the set of whitespace-preserving element names. If an element name matches a name test in an <xsl:preserve-space> element, then it is added to the set of whitespace-preserving element names. An element matches a name test if and only if the name test would be true for the element as an XPath node test. The applicable match for a particular element name is determined as follows:

• First, any match with lower import precedence than another match is ignored.
• Next, any match with a name test that has a lower default priority than the default priority of the name test of another match is ignored.
• It is an error if this leaves more than one match.

See Also

xsl:strip-space