Bug #3894: Output properties item-separator and saxon:newline should not be whitespace-stripped - Saxon - Saxonica Developer Community

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Bug #3894

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Output properties item-separator and saxon:newline should not be whitespace-stripped

Added by Michael Kay over 5 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Michael Kay

Category:

Serialization

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Start date:

2018-09-04

Due date:

% Done:

100%

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Legacy ID:

Applies to branch:

9.8, trunk

Fix Committed on Branch:

9.8, trunk

Fixed in Maintenance Release:

9.9.0.1, 9.8.0.15

Platforms:

Description

Saxon is performing whitespace stripping on all serialization parameters supplied to xsl:output or xsl:result-document.

The is not appropriate for all parameters, in particular item-separator and saxon:newline.

The method ResultDocument.setSerializationProperty() refrains from doing space-stripping in the case of item-separator (but not saxon:newline), but in the case of parameters supplied to xsl:output and xsl:result-document the damage has already been done by then.

It's possible to get values containing spaces through from the command line (!saxon:newline=" ") though I haven't found a way to get newlines and carriage returns through this interface - no doubt it depends on the shell interpreter in use. Presumably this means it's also possible via the Java API.

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Updated by Michael Kay over 5 years ago

Status changed from New to Resolved
Applies to branch 9.8, trunk added
Fix Committed on Branch 9.8, trunk added

I have added some test cases to the XSLT 3.0 output and result-document test sets setting item-separator to various whitespace values. Note that these generally need to be written using character entities because of XML attribute value normalization.

I have added new test cases to the XSLT 3.0 Extra test suite output-properties for saxon:newline.

I have changed XSLOutput and XSLResultDocument to avoid trimming whitespace on item-separator and saxon:newline. With these changes the tests pass on the 9.9 branch. The item-separator property on the 9.8 branch is something of a lost cause, but I will make the same changes anyway, even though the tests fail for other reasons. Note that whitespace in a property computed as an AVT in xsl;result-document gets through without requiring these changes.

I have also changed ResultDocument.setSerializationProperty() to refrain from whitespace-stripping saxon:newline (there was already special-case code for item-separator in this case).

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