[xsl] question on apply-templates and strip-space

[Alice Tull <tull@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm new to XSL. I'm trying to get the following input:

	<MyStuff>
	     <Tag1>
		This is just a <Tag2>normal</Tag2> line.
	     </Tag1>
	     <Tag1>
		This is the second <Tag2>normal</Tag2> line.
	     </Tag1>
	</MyStuff>

To be generated as the following output:

	Ta-Da:This is just a {1} line.
	Ta-Da:This is the second {1} line.

I want the result to be simple "text" rather than XML or HTML.

Here's my stylesheet:

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

	   <xsl:output method="text" indent="no" />

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

	   <xsl:template match="Tag2">{<xsl:number count="*"/>}</xsl:template>

	   <xsl:template match="/">
	    <xsl:for-each select="MyStuff">
	      <xsl:text>Ta-Da:</xsl:text>
	      <xsl:apply-templates select="Tag1"/><xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
	    </xsl:for-each>
	   </xsl:template>
	</xsl:stylesheet>

My output was:
	Ta-Da:
	   This is just a {1} line.

	Ta-Da:
	   This is the second {1} line.

Which has more spaces and linefeeds than I want.
The spaces in the text output was exactly the same as the spaces in
the original xml file. Shouldn't "strip-space" get rid of the
linefeed and spaces in the original <Tag1> node? Will normalize-space
help, and how to use it in the case where I need to apply-templates?

Btw, I tried this on the latest version on both Xalan and libxslt.

thanx,
alice



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