Re: [xsl] XSLT to remove characters and whitespaces

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:08 AM 7/7/2006, I wrote:
> So if your input were
>
> <greeting>
>   <to>Georg</to>
>   <from>XSL-List</from>
>   <text>Hey, how are tricks?</text>
> </greeting>
>
> you'll get
>
> <greeting>GeorgXSL-ListHey, how are tricks?
>   <to>Georg</to>
>   <from>XSL-List</from>
>   <text>Hey, how are tricks?</text>
> </greeting>

Actually you'll get

<greeting>GeorgXSL-ListHey, how are tricks?
  <to>GeorgGeorg</to>
  <from>XSL-ListXSL-List</from>
  <text>Hey, how are tricks?Hey, how are tricks?</text>
</greeting>

My wetware XSLT engine sometimes requires several runs to get it right.

Cheers,
Wendell

> > i have a xml file with some content in it which contains some unwanted
> > carriage returns and whitespaces. Now I'm trying to write a stylesheet
> > which makes an exact copy of the source file but without the returns
> > and whitespaces. I thought this should work:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> > <xsl:output name="stripped" method="xml" version="1.0"
> > encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
> > <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> >   <xsl:result-document format="stripped" href="result.xml">
> >      <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >   </xsl:result-document>
> > </xsl:template>
> > <xsl:template match="*">
> >   <xsl:element name="{name()}">
> >      <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(translate(translate(.,
> > '&#x0d;&#x0a;', ' '), '&#09;', ' '))"/>
> >   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >   </xsl:element>
> > </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > But the output is a mess in parts. What am I doing wrong?