xsl:preserve-space

Input_Whitespace_and_Output_Serialization, XSL / By
<xsl:preserve-space>
The xsl:preserve-space element is used to keep white-space only nodes in the output. Note that the default is to leave white-space only nodes. Therefore, it is only necessary to use the xsl:preserve-space element when you use the xsl:strip-space element and wish to insure that certain white-space nodes are not removed. By white-space, we refer to carriage returns, line feeds, spaces and tabs. No text or numbers appear in the node.
The related xsl:strip-space element is used to remove white-space only nodes so that they do not appear in the output. This is a self-closing element and it cannot contain any child elements or any content.
elements=”names”
The mandatory elements attribute is a white-space delimited list of the names of the elements in which all of the white-space nodes must not be removed. You can also use generic names with wild cards.
We use the eBIZ_com_Staff XML file for our example with the following header: <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”xslt_example_preservespace.xsl”?> and we name it: eBIZ_com_Staff.xml
Code for xslt_example_preservespace1.xsl: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<!-- DWXMLSource="sample23.xml" --><!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet  [

	<!ENTITY nbsp   " ">

	<!ENTITY copy   "©"
>

	<!ENTITY reg    "®"
>

	<!ENTITY trade  "™">



	<!ENTITY mdash  "—"
>

	<!ENTITY ldquo  "“">



	<!ENTITY rdquo  "”">

<!ENTITY pound  "£">



	<!ENTITY yen    "¥">



	<!ENTITY euro   "€">

]>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:preserve-space elements="fname" />



<xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"


 doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 


Transitional//EN" doctype-system=


"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>


<xsl:template match="/">



<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<script>



var i=0;

function mm() {

i+=1;

document.data.srno.innerHTML=""+i;

}

</script> 



<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 

content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

<title>Sample XSL Document</title>

<style type="text/css">



<xsl:comment>



.style3 {font-family: Geneva, Arial,


 Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #0033FF; }

</xsl:comment>



</style>



</head>



<body>


<table width="59%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" id="data">

  <tr>

    <td width="9%" nowrap="nowrap"

 bgcolor="#6699FF"><strong>Sr no </strong></td>

    <td width="22%" bgcolor="#6699FF">

<strong>Employee ID </strong></td>

	<td width="30%" bgcolor="#6699FF">

<strong>Name</strong></td>

    

    <td width="20%" bgcolor="#6699FF">

<strong>Department</strong></td>

   

    <td width="19%" bgcolor="#6699FF">

<strong>Designation</strong></td>

	<td width="19%" nowrap="nowrap" b

gcolor="#6699FF"><strong>Phone No </strong></td>

	<td width="19%" nowrap="nowrap
" 
bgcolor="#6699FF"><strong>Address </strong></td>

  </tr>

<xsl:for-each select="ebiz/employee_details">

	<tr>



    <td><span class="style3">.

      <script>i=i+1;document.write(i);</script>

    </span></td>


<td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="style3">

<xsl:value-of select="emp_id" /></span></td>

	 <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="style3"

><xsl:value-of select="fname"> </xsl:value-of>

<xsl:value-of select="lname"></xsl:value-of></span></td>

   

    <td nowrap="nowrap"><xsl:value-of select="department" /></td>

    

    <td nowrap="nowrap"><xsl:value-of select="designation" /></td>

	<td nowrap="nowrap"><xsl:value-of select="phone" /></td>



	<td nowrap="nowrap"><xsl:value-of select="address"/></td
>

  </tr></xsl:for-each>

</table>

 

</body>

</html>



</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>
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