Prevent whitespaces between two XSLT-elements from being removed by the xslt-processor

Question

Hi,

my question is a bit different from the other ones..

i got an xsl-code like this:

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

what i want in my result is:

result_of_select_1    result_of_select_2

what i get is:

result_of_select_1result_of_select_2

how can i prevent this? ( any xsl:output option for example? )

All the other solutions i found were specificly for the same problem but in the XML-Source document and not in the XSLT-document like this one...

btw. a solution like "insert elements instead of the spaces" is not a possible solution for my, because the xslt-code is generated dynamically

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use:

<xsl:value-of select="..."/><xsl:text>&#32;</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="...">

EDIT:

Refer to this ASCII table for other symbols

Answer 2

The white space as you have it is insignificant and gets discarded. If that was not the case, every last bit of white space you have in your XSLT code would end up in the result document. You must be explicit about the white space you want in the result.

User either:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(..., '    ', ...)" />

or:

<xsl:value-of select="..." />
<xsl:text>    </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="..." />