XSLT preserve whitespaces

[mahendra dubey]

Hi there
I am using XSLT to process an XML file.I want to copy all whole XML and want to modify some attribute node.I using follwing code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
     xmlns:db="http://tempuri.org/DatabaseXMLSchema.xsd">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

but i lost the whitespaces in this case if I add the " xml:space='pres erve'" and use follwing
<xsl:template match="@* | node()" xml:space="pres erve">
then I got follwing error
Attribute and namespace nodes cannot be added to the parent element after a text, comment, pi, or sub-element node has already been added.

please help me how can I do that....

[Frinavale]

Have you tried adding xml:space="pres erve" to the template before adding the child element?

-Frinny