> I thought that 
> 
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
> strips all whitespace from element content

No, it only strips whitespace nodes, that is, text nodes containing nothing
but whitespace.

, but this does not seem to
> include carriage returns, tabs and similar trailing and leading
> characters. However, when reading an element content,  I would like to
> have those ignored.

Use the normalize-space() function.

Mike Kay 


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