RE: [xsl] Stylesheet to remove comments and insignificant whitespace

["Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm in the process of creating a stylesheet which removes all 
> comments from
> the source document but keeps everything else.  I would also 
> like to remove
> all insignificant whitespace, but seem to be having problems in that
> particular area.  So far, here's my feeble attempts:

Hi,

There an element to take care of insignificant whitespace - <xsl:strip-space>

So, if you combine that with an 'identity transform', it should have the desired effect:

<xsl:stylesheet 
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
     version="1.0">

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

cheers
andrew

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