Bug #3842
closed
Whitespace added before paragraph end tag in HTML serialization
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Description
With indentation enabled, using the HTML output method, the content
<p>Another 
 para</p>
is serialized as
<p>Another
para
</p>
Which contravenes the serialization specification. This states (for both XQ1.0/XT2.0 and XQ3.1/XT3.0)
Whitespace MUST NOT be added other than before or after an element, or adjacent to an existing whitespace character.
(It is allowed however by XSLT 1.0, where the equivalent rule is
"If the indent attribute has the value yes, then the html output method may add or remove whitespace as it outputs the result tree, so long as it does not change how an HTML user agent would render the output."
Updated by Michael Kay over 6 years ago
Although this is clearly a non-conformance, changing the output here would affect the output of many queries and transformations (and might, for example, cause users' XSpec test suites to fail). Since no-one has complained about the problem, I think it's probably safest to defer fixing it until the next major release.
Updated by Michael Kay over 6 years ago
Added QT3 test case Serialization-html-47
Updated by Michael Kay over 6 years ago
Similarly, indenting whitespace is not permitted before or after a comment or processing instruction unless there happens to be adjacent whitespace or an adjacent start/end tag.
Updated by Michael Kay over 6 years ago
- Category set to Serialization
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Priority changed from Low to Normal
- Applies to branch trunk added
- Fix Committed on Branch trunk added
I decided to continue indenting the paragraph end tag on the 9.8 branch in the interests of stability, but I have made the change for 9.9.
Updated by O'Neil Delpratt about 6 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Fixed in Maintenance Release 9.9.0.1 added
Bug fix applied in the Saxon 9.9.0.1 major release.
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