Re: [xsl] Removing Newlines

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

> Sorry to bother the collective twice in one day...
Actually it's tomorrow now anyway so that's twice in two days which
is allowed:-)

> My XSLT has a strip-space declaration for all of the Synopsis element,
> which I'm assuming covers child elements too?

no


> Yes or no, I then tried a normalize-space function on the <o> element,
> but this made the transformed text ignore the <var> child element
> translation instructions.

normalize-space() requires a string as input so if you give it an
element content it takes the string value of that first and all your
markup's gone.


What you want to do is process the contents of o so that's

<xsl:template match="o">
  ..
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

now you want to normali{s|z}e space of text nodes  of o so that's
<xsl:template match="o/text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

or more like your initial stated req of removing newlines:

now you want to normali{s|z}e space of text nodes  of o so that's
<xsl:template match="o/text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'&#10;','')"/>
</xsl:template>

David



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