Re: [xsl] normalize-space and the identity template

You can use:

<template match="text()"> to match the all text nodes then use the normalize space inside it.

-- Jeff

On 05 5, 10, at 11:54 AM, Keith Gilbert wrote:

I have the following xml:
<Company>
     <Title>Federal Civil Trial </Title>
     <Author>by John Doe </Author>
     <Body>Blah blah blah blah blah. </Body>
</Company>
I need to remove the extra spaces that sometimes occur before the end-tags.

I've been messing around with the identity template, and can get that to copy my XML intact.

The following trims the spaces before the end-tags nicely.
<xsl:template match="Company/Title">
     <xsl:copy><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Company/Author">
     <xsl:copy><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
But what I'm wondering is if there's a way to use the identity template to copy the whole tree, but still somehow use normalize- space to remove the spaces. This would enable me to not have to match each element of the tree individually (there are a lot of possible elements).

I can't quite get me head around this one. Any pointers in the right direction are appreciated.

BTW, I'm stuck having to use XSL 1.0 for this project.

~ Keith
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