Added test case for Jira issue XALANC-616
diff --git a/tests/conf-gold/whitespace/whitespace36.out b/tests/conf-gold/whitespace/whitespace36.out
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><out/>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/conf/whitespace/whitespace36.xml b/tests/conf/whitespace/whitespace36.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<foo>
+<boo>
+</boo>
+</foo>
diff --git a/tests/conf/whitespace/whitespace36.xsl b/tests/conf/whitespace/whitespace36.xsl
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+
+ <!-- FileName: whitespace36 -->
+ <!-- Document: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt -->
+ <!-- DocVersion: 19991116 -->
+ <!-- Section: 3.4 -->
+ <!-- Creator: Dmitry Hayes (dmitryh@ca.ibm.com) and David Bertoni (dbertoni@apache.org) -->
+ <!-- Purpose: Test for whitespace stripping from source documents when converting
+ a node set to a string. -->
+ <!-- Elaboration: Xalan-C neglected to strip whitespace text nodes that were
+ descendants of a document or element node when calculating the string value. -->
+
+<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
+
+<xsl:template match="/">
+ <out>
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+ </out>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<xsl:template match="*">
+ <xsl:if test="string-length(.) != 0 and . != '' and string(.) != ''">
+ <xsl:text>Whitespace text nodes for for the element node "</xsl:text>
+ <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>
+ <xsl:text>" were not stripped!"</xsl:text>
+ </xsl:if>
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+</xsl:template>
+
+
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+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
