Subject: Re: [xsl] How to prevent blank lines and blank inserts for this script? From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:35:54 +0000 |
Add <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> as a top level element cheers andrew 2009/12/7 Ben Stover <bxstover@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > When I apply the XSLT script at the bottom of this posting then it works fine > in general. The purpose is to remove empty elements and empty attributes. > But I guess this purpose is not important. > > However there is one problem. The result XML doc contains a blank line at the > location of the removed element and the following element is shifted some blanks > to the left border. Simplified example for the input.xml: > > ... > (3 blanks)<ns1:myelem> > (6 blanks)<ns2:aaa>123</ns2:aaa> > (6 blanks)<ns2:bbb></ns2:bbb> > (6 blanks)<ns2:ccc>456</ns2:ccc> > (3 blanks)</ns1:myelem> > ... > > I am getting an output.xml similar to: > > ... > (3 blanks)<ns1:myelem> > (6 blanks)<ns2:aaa>123</ns2:aaa> > (3 blanks) > (2 blanks)<ns2:ccc>456</ns2:ccc> > (3 blanks)</ns1:myelem> > ... > > How do I get rid of the blank line? > How do I get rid of the left shift of element <ns2:ccc> > > Ben > > XSLT script: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> > > <xsl:output indent="yes"/> > > <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> > <xsl:copy> > <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/> > </xsl:copy> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="*[normalize-space( concat(.,@*) )='']"/> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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