RE: RE: [xsl] remove <b> and <br>+merge nodes

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2004-01-22 13:37 +0100, Fabrice Estiévenart wrote:
> that's it,
> the main difficulty is to merge resulting text nodes into an unique one :
>
> for example :
> <p>my <b>tailor</b> is <br/> rich</p>
>
> should become :
> <p>
> #text : my tailor is rich
> <p>

Where did the newline sequences at the start and end come from in the above 
example?

> and NOT :
> <p>
> #text : my
> #text : tailor
> #text : is
> #text : rich
> <p>

But the result was given to you earlier:  <xsl:value-of /> for an element 
node in the source node tree adds to the result tree the concatenation of 
all of the descendant text nodes.

I note that XSLT 1.0 section 7.2 states "Adjacent text nodes in the result 
tree are automatically merged." but perhaps your processor isn't doing this.

If you wanted to coerce the creation of the result tree to be a single string,

 <p><xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/></p>

... may give you the result as a single string.  But I haven't accommodated 
the newline sequences that you show in your example you have asked us to 
work with.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken


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