Re: [xsl] Removing Newlines

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg--

At 05:21 PM 6/11/2002, you wrote:
> I need to remove newlines from the <o><o/> element in the
> following XML:
>
> >  <Synopsis>
> >     <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
> >     [-from <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>] [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-mytag]
> >     [-noeditor] [mput_options] <var>file</var>...</o>
> >
> >     <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
> >     [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-noeditor] [mput_options]
> >     -j <var>job@cluster</var> [...]</o>
> >    </Synopsis>
>
> My XSLT has a strip-space declaration for all of the Synopsis element,
> which I'm assuming covers child elements too?

Nope; strip-space only goes one level down.

What you're discovering about how tough it is to strip newlines from the 
<o> elements is par for the course, if you need to keep descending (which 
you do).

The solution is to do your space normalizing only when you get to the bottom:

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

You can constrain this to match="o/text()" or o//text() if needed.

If you don't want to compress runs of spaces, use the translate() function 
on LF characters, as you tried, but again at that bottom level.

I hope that helps,
Wendell


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