• From: "John P. McCaskey" <groups@j...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:39:46 -0400

On 7/12/2012 9:54 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 14:18, John P. McCaskey wrote:
>>
>> <persName>
>>      His Excellency
>>      <forename>Edward</forename>
>>      <surname>Smith</surname>,
>>      Shire of <placeName>Westerland</placeName>
>> </persName>
>>
>> Clearly the encoder is expecting that during processing, space will get
>> collapsed and leading and trailing space will be trimmed.
>
> Ug normalising mixed content is hard:-)

I think the (pseudo-)code is just

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=1]">
     left-trim
</xsl:text>

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=last()]">
     right-trim
</xsl:text>

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=1 and position()=last()]">
     normalize-space
</xsl:text>

plus a filter to deal with xml:space='preserve'.

-- John

• References:
  • What is @xml:space about?
    • From: "John P. McCaskey" <groups@j...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: "John P. McCaskey" <groups@j...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: "John P. McCaskey" <groups@j...>
  • Re: What is @xml:space about?
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>