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Re: Removing Newlines


Greg--

At 05:21 PM 6/11/2002, you wrote:
I need to remove newlines from the <o><o/> element in the
following XML:

 <Synopsis>
    <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
    [-from <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>] [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-mytag]
    [-noeditor] [mput_options] <var>file</var>...</o>

    <c>mmerge</c> <o>[-n] [-to <var>tag</var>|<var>rev</var>]
    [-v[<var>N</var>]] [-noeditor] [mput_options]
    -j <var>job@cluster</var> [...]</o>
   </Synopsis>
My XSLT has a strip-space declaration for all of the Synopsis element,
which I'm assuming covers child elements too?
Nope; strip-space only goes one level down.

What you're discovering about how tough it is to strip newlines from the <o> elements is par for the course, if you need to keep descending (which you do).

The solution is to do your space normalizing only when you get to the bottom:

<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

You can constrain this to match="o/text()" or o//text() if needed.

If you don't want to compress runs of spaces, use the translate() function on LF characters, as you tried, but again at that bottom level.

I hope that helps,
Wendell


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