Re: [xsl] Normalizing Whitespace When Not Using "xsl:value-of"

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Nathan Tallman wrote:
> Is it possible to remove whitespace when inserting values without
> using xsl:value-of?
>
> This is my template. It outputs HTML meta tags, but I can't figure out
> how to normalize the space when not using xsl:value-of. I'm using xslt
> 1.0.


> <xsl:template name="metadata">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" name="dc.title"
> content="{eadheader/filedesc/titlestmt/titleproper}"/>

Well you can use any XPath expression in the attribute value template so

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" name="dc.title"
content="{normalize-space(eadheader/filedesc/titlestmt/titleproper)}"/>

might be all you are looking for.