Answer to question -- Striping whitespace with LotusXSL

["Garriss Jr.,James P." <jgarriss@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:14 PM 10/11/99 , you wrote:
> I'm using LotusXSL and have these included in my XSL stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:output method="text" indent="no"\>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> The resulting text output file still has all the whitespace from my XSL 
> stylesheet.  Anyone know how to get rid of it?  TIA,

Much thanks to Scott Boag of Lotus for figuring out what I needed to do.

In my stylesheet, I was outputting text characters like such:

  </xsl:if>
  //
</xsl:template>

I was only intending to output the double slashes, but the whitespace 
leading and trailing the slashes were also being output to my resulting 
text file.  There are two fixes:

1) enclose the output in text elements, like this:

  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:text>//</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

2) use variables, like this:

[set global variable]
<xsl:variable name="double_slash" select="'//'"/>

[reference it in template]
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:value-of select="$double_slash"/>
</xsl:template>

Hope you find this useful,

  James Garriss | The MITRE Corporation | jgarriss @ mitre.org


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