[xsl] Removing Newlines

[Greg Kushmerek <gkushmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to bother the collective twice in one day...

I need to remove newlines from the <o><o/> element in the
following XML:

>  <Synopsis>
>     <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
>     [-from <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>] [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-mytag]
>     [-noeditor] [mput_options] <var>file</var>...</o>
>
>     <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
>     [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-noeditor] [mput_options]
>     -j <var>job@cluster</var> [...]</o>
>    </Synopsis>

My XSLT has a strip-space declaration for all of the Synopsis element,
which I'm assuming covers child elements too?

Yes or no, I then tried a normalize-space function on the <o> element,
but this made the transformed text ignore the <var> child element
translation instructions.

My next step was to try to use translate function to translate newlines into
whitespace.  I did it like this:

> <!-- o template -->
> <xsl:template match="o">
> <xsl:text /><xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'&#10;','')" /><xsl:text />
> </xsl:template>

But again, this misses the var elements (they're not translated).

So what I need is a way to strip out newline characters that appear in the 
source
XML, but for source that has child elements that will be transformed.

Thanks for any help,

--gk

Greg Kushmerek
Sr. Technical Writer
IA/Tools
The MathWorks
(+1) 508-647-7136


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