Re: wordml-* : missing whitespaces

["Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On 1/27/07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>   I have been using xsltproc in conjunction with the wordml-*.xsl
> stylesheet to try to produce a docbook document but I have a couple of
> minor issues. Hopefully someone can tell me if I am doing something
> wrong.
>
> The original Word document contains:
> <w:pStyle w:val="TableEntry"/><w:keepNext/><w:keepLines/></w:pPr><w:r><w:t>Sex
> of the named patient. Enumerated
> Values:</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:br/></w:r><w:r><w:tab/><w:t>M =
> male</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:br/></w:r><w:r><w:tab/><w:t>F =
> female</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:br/></w:r><w:r><w:tab/><w:t>O =
> other</w:t></w:r>
>
> Output docbook file contains:
> <entry>Sex of the named patient. Enumerated Values:M = maleF = femaleO
> = other</entry>
>
> Is there anything I should do to keep those whitespaces ?

Dave Pawson suggested the following solution:

http://xml.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=2915

...
Looks like you need to add

<xsl:template match="text:line-break">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
...

My guess is that roundtrip/wordml-* is also missing something like:

<xsl:template match="w:br">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

The only drawback to that solution is that it -sometime- add a final
whitespace, but easily fixed with a normalize-space().

-M