Re: [xsl] XML to text - converting DITA to asciidoc

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/12/2023 19:04, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  3]
>
> * link:txr1689300527868.dita[Step
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  4]
>
> * Complete!
>
>
>
>
>
> * link:fkt1688690571816.dita[Show me the primary landing
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  page]
>
> * link:fto1689306405929.dita[Show me
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  tiles without
descriptions]
> * link:https://example.com[Sample app]
>
>
>
>
> *
> B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  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

Either strip space from the input during input tree building with e.g.

B  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

or, if you want to normalize space in text nodes, use e.g.

B  <xsl:template match="text()">

B B B  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>

B  </xsl:template>


That way your xsl:apply-templates will process any inline elements with
matching templates and the encountered text nodes with above template.