Preserving attribute whitespace

Question

Disclaimer: the following is a sin against XML. That\'s why I\'m trying to change it with XSLT :)

My XML currently looks like this:

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, the XML spec doesn't allow for the preservation of spaces in attributes. In fact, this is one of the few differentiators between what you can do with attributes and elements (the other main one being that elements can contain other tags while attributes cannot).

You will have to process the file outside of XML first in order to preserve the spaces.