Subject: RE: [xsl] Matching text nodes with only whitespaces From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:12:58 -0000 |
> I am really sorry for all the troubles, but we had some > whitespace issues with XML Spy.... First I thought that my > normalizing stylesheet doesn't work properly, but fortunately > it does. There are interesting things going on, if you decide > to "pretty-print" your XML documents... > > The problem with normalize-space was the following: > We first generated FO documents including nodes like > <marker> '' 13 </maker> > These documents were pretty printed via XML Spy, so there was > whitespace > which we wanted to get rid off (since it was output in our > PDFs). If we would have used > > <xsl:template match="text()"> > <xsl:value-of select=""normalize-space(.)"/> > </xsl:template> > > we would have got > <marker>'' 13<marker> > > Or is my understanding of normalize-space incorrect? Have a look at <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> This strips presentational whitespace (whitespace only text nodes) from the source document, which I think is what you're after. cheers andrew
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