Re: White space control when formatting for ascii text

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> It seems to be very difficult to control the white space in the style
> sheet.

If, as you have done, you put all character data inside xsl:text
elements then controlling white space in the stylesheet is simple.
None of it gets through to the output except that inside xsl:text.

Your problem is white space from the source, you have strip-space set
but that only removes text nodes that are all white, it doesn't remove
the newline and spaces or tab after the h here:
      <desc>Date of birth
                         ^
      </desc>
^^^^^^

you want to apply liberal doses of normalize-space

David


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