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RE: Why processor or stylesheets puts strange output
- From: TSchutzerWeissmann at uk dot imshealth dot com
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:34:32 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Why processor or stylesheets puts strange output
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Hi Thiabek,
> I tried that and now it is working not giving unwanted <p> and </p>
> I decided to leave that output but you have provided really good
> solution.
Wendell is right though, it's much easier to use normalize-space() instead:
<xsl:template match="text()[not(normalize-space())]"/>
or - (even better!) - get a different transformer that actually implements
<xsl:strip-space>...
> To tell you i have thought about if i can tell something like if it is
> white space or line feed do nothing but i did not know that we can
> write it like 
 etc.
> I am aware of very few character entities like < > etc.
> where can i get details of those mentioned by you plus if there are
> more things like that.
> it was really very helpful.Is there any website containing
> information
> or listings of these things
Have a look at Mike's article at http://skew.org/xml/tutorial. It takes a
bit
of re-reading (for some of us anyway :) but it's good to get a bit of
precision...
cheers,
Tom
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