[xsl] XML to text - converting DITA to asciidoc

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I'm trying to process complex inline DITA content to text and at the 
same time both process inline markup and strip excess whitespace that 
comes from having the content in a pretty printed format.

I suppose a quick fix might be to go through and un=pretty the XML in a 
pre-pass. Anyone got something that does that?

Currently, I'm trying to process these files as they are in XML and make 
nice text blocks in the converted content. I know that normalize-space() 
will strip the space from text, but it doesn't allow processing of the 
markup at the same time.

So if I have a call like

<xsl:apply-templates/>

I get this when processing an <li>

======
* link:lnu1689300505181.dita[Step
					3]

* link:txr1689300527868.dita[Step
						4]

* Complete!





* link:fkt1688690571816.dita[Show me the primary landing
							page]

* link:fto1689306405929.dita[Show me
							tiles without descriptions]







* link:https://example.com[Sample app]




*
					link:https://example.com[Security Key]

======

If I change that call to

<xsl:apply-templates select="normalize-space(.)"/>

I get clean text, but now I'm missing the processing of the inline 
elements like these <xref>s

=========

* Step 3

* Step 4

* Complete!





* Show me the primary landing page
* Show me tiles without descriptions





* Sample app


* Security Key

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I've confirmed that deleting the whitespace is one possible way to 
correct this problem, just wondering if there is something else I can 
try.

..dan