Bug #4131
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XSLT Strange behaviour of xsl:analyze-string//xsl:copy
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Description
If I apply the attached XSLT over the XML, the xsl:copy instruction generates a whitespace before each chunk of text, as:
<p>Z y t o lo g i e</p>
if I copy the text() by xsl:value-of, I'm getting the expected:
<p>Zytologie</p>
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Updated by Martin Honnen about 5 years ago
I think the result is in accordance with the XSLT spec, your xsl:analyze-string with the xsl:copy https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#shallow-copy constructs a sequence of xs:string values (i.e. all the non-matching substrings) and if you look at https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#constructing-complex-content
Any consecutive sequence of strings in the sequence is converted to a single text node, whose string value contains the content of each of the strings in turn, with a single space (#x20) used as a separator between successive strings.
you will see that there is a space inserted between strings in a sequence.
Updated by Octavian Nadolu about 5 years ago
Thanks for your answer. I seems that I didn't read very well the specification.
Updated by Michael Kay about 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
I agree with Martin's analysis.
This issue of space-separation between strings, but not between text nodes, has always been a problematic area in the spec, but the rules are clear-cut.
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