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RE: Why processor or stylesheets puts strange output


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 &#xA etc.
> I am aware of very few character entities like &lt; &gt; 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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