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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: <root> <object name="blarg" property1="shablarg" property2="werg".../> <object name="yetanotherobject" .../> </root> Yes, I'm putting all the textual data in attributes. I'm hoping XSLT can save me; I want to move toward something like this: <root> <object> <name>blarg</name> <property1>shablarg</name> ... </object> <object> ... </object> </root> I've actually got all of this working so far, with the exception that my sins against XML have been more... exceptional. Some of the tags look like this: <object description = "This is the first line This is the third line. That second line full of whitespace is meaningful"/> I'm using xsltproc under linux, but it doesn't seem to have any options to preserve whitespace. I've attempted to use xsl:preserve-space and xml:space="preserve" to no avail. Every option I've found seems to apply to keeping whitespace within the elements themselves, but not the attributes. Every single time, the above gets changed to: This is the first line This is the third line. That second line full of whitespace is meaningful So the question is, can I preserve the attribute whitespace?

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