Hello,

I am using QXmlQuery to transform some xml. The problem that I am experiencing is that when I have whitespace text nodes between elements that are transformed, the whitespace text nodes are discarded. I have included a ready example below. In this example, the spaces between the <b> elements are stripped and a newline is added. If there are non-whitespace characters between the <b> elements, nothing is stripped and no newline is added. Likewise, if two <b> elements are adjacent with no whitespace separating them, a newline is added.

I have looked through the docs for anything related to normalizing whitespace, but my searches have thus far turned up empty.

Thanks for any help,
Mark

Qt Code: 
  1. #include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
  2.  
  3. #include <QXmlQuery>
  4. #include <QXmlFormatter>
  5. #include <QBuffer>
  6.  
  7. #include <iostream>
  8.  
  9. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  10. {
  11.     QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
  12.  
  13.     QString content_str = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
  14.         "<article>Hey <b>txt</b>    <b>txt</b><b>yes</b> <b>no</b> and <b>or</b> normal    text</article>";
  15.     QBuffer content_buffer;
  16.     content_buffer.open(QBuffer::ReadWrite);
  17.     content_buffer.write(content_str.toUtf8());
  18.     content_buffer.reset();
  19.  
  20.     QString transform_str = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
  21.         "<xsl:stylesheet version=\"2.0\" xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\">"
  22.         "   <xsl:template match=\"/\"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>"
  23.         "   <xsl:template match=\"article\"><div id=\"article\"><xsl:apply-templates/></div></xsl:template>"
  24.         "   <xsl:template match=\"b\"><strong><xsl:apply-templates/></strong></xsl:template>"
  25.         "</xsl:stylesheet>";
  26.     QBuffer transform_buffer;
  27.     transform_buffer.open(QBuffer::ReadWrite);
  28.     transform_buffer.write(transform_str.toUtf8());
  29.     transform_buffer.reset();
  30.  
  31.     // Define query.
  32.     QXmlQuery query(QXmlQuery::XSLT20);
  33.     query.setFocus(&content_buffer);
  34.     query.setQuery(&transform_buffer);
  35.  
  36.     // Evaluate query to an output buffer.
  37.     QBuffer output_buffer;
  38.     output_buffer.open(QBuffer::ReadWrite);
  39.     QXmlFormatter output_formatter(query, &output_buffer);
  40.     output_formatter.setIndentationDepth(0);
  41.     query.evaluateTo(&output_formatter);
  42.     output_buffer.reset();
  43.  
  44.     QString output_xml_str(output_buffer.data());
  45.  
  46.     std::cout << output_xml_str.toStdString() << std::endl;
  47.  
  48.     // Output is:
  49.     //<div id="article">Hey <strong>txt</strong>
  50.     //<strong>txt</strong>
  51.     //<strong>yes</strong>
  52.     //<strong>no</strong> and <strong>or</strong> normal    text</div>
  53.  
  54.     return a.exec();
  55. }
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