Re: [xsl] Removing line breaks without normalize-space()

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

In XSLT 1.0 you can do it recursively (not tested myself):

<xsl:template name="removelines" >
   <xsl:param name="text" />
   <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="string-before($text, '&#x0A;')>
           <xsl:value-of select="string-before($text, '&#x0A;')" />
           <xsl:call-template name="removelines">
              <xsl:with-param name="text" select="string-after($text, 
'&#x0A;') />
           </xsl:call-template>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:otherwise>
           <xsl:value-of select="$text" />
       </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

In XSLT 2.0 you can do:
<xsl:value-of select="replace(paragraph, '\n', '')" />

Or perhaps (not sure this is more complete):
<xsl:value-of select="replace(paragraph, '&#xA;|&#xD;', '')" />

Cheers,
Abel Braaksma
http://abelleba.metacarpus.com
  

Mark Peters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to remove line breaks without deleting the whitespace
> in-between elements? For example, suppose you started with the
> following XML:
>
> <paragraph>
>     <sentence>Some words are <i>italicized</i> and some words are in
> <b>bold</b>.</sentence>
>     <sentence>Some words are <u>underlined</u>.</sentence>
> </paragraph>
>
>
> I'd like to remove the line breaks, but otherwise retain any existing
> whitespace between elements, resulting in the following XML:
>
> <paragraph><sentence>Some words are <i>italicized</i> and some words
> are in <b>bold</b>.</sentence><sentence>Some words are
> <u>underlined</u>.</sentence></paragraph>
>
> I'm trying to avoid sentences whose contents run together when I
> process the text.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark