Subject: Re: [xsl] Capture stray carriage returns? From: "dvint dvint@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:05:04 -0000 |
Never done stream work, so never thought to mention that. I am processing individual files.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 3/13/24 3:41 PM (GMT-08:00) To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Capture stray carriage returns? 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 sothat it can do the xsl:strip-space or as a tree where perhaps thatstripping is not done?But you let us speculate.Running/debugging code seems easier.
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