RE: [xsl] how to omit new lines

Subject: RE: [xsl] how to omit new lines
From: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:11:15 -0400
Dmitri Ilyin  wrote:

>I have simple xml as follows:
>
><text>
>   text
></text>
>
>I got in output:
>
>     blah:
>        text
>
>
>How can i get it to put it all in one line:
>
>blah: text
>

The normalize-space() function will get rid of the extra white space at the
beginning and end of your text element:

<xsl:template match="text">
	blah:<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

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