RE: [xsl] removing tab formatting during XSLT?

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Could someone please enlighten me on how I can remove tab 
> formatting from my resulting XML.
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> Source XML:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <A>
> 	<B att="att">a</B>
> 	<C>b</C>
> 	<D>c</D>
> </A>
> 
> Desired output XML (i.e. the same as input but with all tabs removed):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?><A><B att="att">a</B><C>b</C><D>c</D></A>
> 
> XSLT (which doesn't work):

Your XSLT should work. In fact, the following much simpler code should
work:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

But I see that in a later post, you changed your example, so that A had
mixed content. If you want to remove whitespace from text nodes that
also include non-whitespace characters, you need to use
normalize-space().

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> 	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" 
> indent="no"/>
> 	
> 	<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 	
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	
> 	<xsl:template match="*">
> 		<!-- recreate the element -->
> 		<xsl:element name="{name()}">
> 			<!-- copy existing attributes-->
> 			<xsl:for-each select="@*">
> 				<xsl:copy/>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 		</xsl:element>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	
> 	<xsl:variable name="tab">nbsp;</xsl:variable>
> 	
> 	<xsl:template match="text()">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="translate(. , $tab , '')"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<!-- original attempt	
> 	<xsl:template match="text()">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
>  	-->
>  
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I want to remove the tabs because this significantly reduces 
> the size of the file.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Malcolm
> 
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