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	Strip whitespace & carriage returns using XSLT

0zymandias

10-10-2007 10:42 PM

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xslt, xml, whitespace

0zymandias says:

<xsl:strip-space elements="*">

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10-29-2007 10:39 PM

0zymandias

Answers the question: How do I consume nodes I don't want to display so no whitespace occurs?

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&lt;xsl:strip-space elements="*"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:preserve-space elements="para"/&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;
    &lt;root&gt;
        &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="book/chapter"/&gt;
    &lt;/root&gt;
&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="chapter"&gt;chapter:[&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="para|text()"/&gt;]&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
&lt;xsl:template match="text()"&gt;[&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;]&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
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