XSLT Transform Not Indented

Question

Here is the XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:P="http://abc.com/Xyz.xsd" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
    <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="Thing">
        <xsl:element name="div">
            <xsl:attribute name="class">
                <xsl:text>Field</xsl:text>
            </xsl:attribute>

            <xsl:element name="span">
                <xsl:attribute name="class">
                    <xsl:text>Label</xsl:text>
                </xsl:attribute>

                <xsl:value-of select="$displayName"/>
                <xsl:text>:</xsl:text>
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="span">
                <xsl:attribute name="class">
                    <xsl:text>Input</xsl:text>
                </xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the result of the XSLT conversion:

<div class="Field"><span class="Label">Name:</span><span class="Input"></span></div>

This is how I do the conversion:

XslCompiledTransform xslTransform = new XslCompiledTransform();

xslTransform.Load(xsltPath, new XsltSettings(true, true), new XmlUrlResolver());

using (FileStream outputStream = File.Create(outputPath))
{
    using (StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml))
    {
        using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader))
        {
            xslTransform.Transform(xmlReader, outputStream);
        }
    }
}

Why is the format not indented? Later in the output, some things are indented. I do not know why. I am looking for a solution that will respect the format settings as stated in XSLT. This code is used to write to any format (XML, HTML, text, etc.), so I do not want the specific code to work only with XML. But if my XSLT has XML output and is indented, then this should be done.

Answer 1

XmlWriter ( XslCompiledTransform) xml , xslt.

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XslCompiledTransform xslTransform = new XslCompiledTransform();
xslTransform.Load(xsltPath, new XsltSettings(true, true), new XmlUrlResolver());

using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(outputPath, xslTransform.OutputSettings))
{
    using (StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xml))
    {
        using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader))
        {
            xslTransform.Transform(xmlReader, writer);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

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xsl:strip-space elements="*"

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Answer 3

HTML does not require padding, so why you?

If you really need padding, use XmlWriter and XmlWriterSettings to write to the FileStream object.