Re: [xsl] Capture stray carriage returns?

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

On 13/03/2024 23:32, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm trying to convert some XML/DITA content to asciidoc/flat text
> file. asciidoc is very picky about where spaces and blank lines occur.
>
> Typically I would just use a catch all template possibly with some
> modes assigned
>
> <xsl:template match="text()" />
>
> And just process specific element content directly and this seems to
> handle the problem of extra blank lines (my particular problem
> currently).
>
> I think I chose not to do this for my current task because I need the
> bulk of the test to be processed (rather than looking for specific
> content to extract). So I have something like this:
>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="text()" >
> B  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> I believe this is working correctly for space in the elements but I'm
> getting stray blank lines that I can't find a way to control. I think
> these blank lines are coming from the pretty printed XML source.
>
> In an XML output I wouldn't worry about these blank lines, but in this
> flat file, I need to tighten up my result.
>
> Questions:
> - do you agree this is the source of the blank lines?


How do you feed the input to the XSLT processor? As a stream or file so
that it can do the xsl:strip-space or as a tree where perhaps that
stripping is not done?

But you let us speculate.

Running/debugging code seems easier.