Re: [xsl] using normalize-space with mixed element content (more info)

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/06/2010 00:44, Lynn Murdock wrote:
> i'm using xslt 2.0, with saxon (8.7), integrated into an IDE (intellij).

saxon 8's pretty old, any reason not to be using 9?
> i also forgot to mention that normalize-space is not removing the whitespace between the italic tags, it's just stripping the italic formatting.
That doesn't sound likely, are you sure?
normalize-space requires a string as input so if you give it an element 
with mixed content it starts off by taking the string value of the 
content (so just gets the character data) it is this string value that 
is then normalized, so any runs of white space within a nested element 
should be converted to a single space (or dropped completely if they 
constitute either end of the entire string).

All the solutions given so far work with xslt 2 (mine also xslt 1)
which you want depends on which you want, specifically whether you need 
runs of space to be converted to a single #20 character (as 
normalize-space would do, (only mine did that) whether you want space 
stripped if it occurs at the end but in a child element (only Gerrit's 
did that) or whether you wanted it to be succinct and understandable 
(Michael's version)


David