Bug #10312: <xsl:strip elements ...> tag isn't working properly

From: joeasdf@hotmail.com Operating system: Windows 2000 Pro PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Sablotron XSL Bug description: &lt;xsl:strip elements ...&gt; tag isn't working properly I think there may be a problem with Sablotron and <xsl:strip-space> tags. I'm using Sablotron with PHP to generate HTML (and other text based outputs) from a couple different stylesheets and XML data being pulled from my db. When I run all my stylesheets on the command line with Instant Saxon (by Michael Kay), the output looks just like I want it to. However, the output generated by PHP/Sablotron is messed up, because there are too many newline characters in the output. If I have <text><page><para><mylist><mylistitem>listitem</mylistitem></mylist></para></page></text> I get the correct output: ---- begin output ---- * listitem ---- end output ---- However, since this XML isn't very human readable, I reformat my XML input to this: <text> <page> <para> <myliist> <mylistitem>listitem</mylistitem> </mylist> </para> </page> </text> Instant Saxon treats these two XML inputs as the same thing and produces the same output, since <xsl:strip-space elements="*" /> appears in the stylesheet. However, the PHP/Sablotron translation gives me this: ---- begin output ---- * listitem ---- end output ---- I've also sent this note to the sab-bugs@gingerall people. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10312&edit=1