[xsl] RE: xsl-list Digest 28 Jun 2006 05:10:00 -0000 Issue 820

[Jordan Soet <jds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, but I was kind of hoping that there'd be something like the
strip-space, so that the empty text nodes will get removed before the
document is processed. Is there a way to remove all the nbsp before the
strip space happens other than to just process it with another stylesheet
beforehand?

Thanks,
Jordan

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:43:55 +0100
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl:strip-space and nbsp
Message-Id: <200606270943.k5R9htih031117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Anyways, what I'm wondering is how to strip the space including the
> nbsp.

non breaking space characters are not "whitespace" as defined by XML and
XSLT specifications (which just consists of tab, space and various end
of line characters) so you get rid of character 160 the same way as
you'd get rid of any other character such as "a", 
trannslate(.,'&#160; &#9;&#10;&#13;','')
for example will translate nbsp along with the whitespace characters to
nothing.

David

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