<xsl:strip-space> only removes text nodes that consist entirely of white
space. To remove white-space that's part of the same text node as printable
characters, use the normalize-space() function.

Michael Kay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alice Tull
> Sent: 21 February 2002 00:55
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  question on apply-templates and strip-space
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to XSL. I'm trying to get the following input:
>
> 	<MyStuff>
> 	     <Tag1>
> 		This is just a <Tag2>normal</Tag2> line.
> 	     </Tag1>
> 	     <Tag1>
> 		This is the second <Tag2>normal</Tag2> line.
> 	     </Tag1>
> 	</MyStuff>
>
> To be generated as the following output:
>
> 	Ta-Da:This is just a {1} line.
> 	Ta-Da:This is the second {1} line.
>
> I want the result to be simple "text" rather than XML or HTML.
>
> Here's my stylesheet:
>
> 	<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> 	 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> 	   <xsl:output method="text" indent="no" />
>
> 	   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> 	   <xsl:template match="Tag2">{<xsl:number
> count="*"/>}</xsl:template>
>
> 	   <xsl:template match="/">
> 	    <xsl:for-each select="MyStuff">
> 	      <xsl:text>Ta-Da:</xsl:text>
> 	      <xsl:apply-templates
> select="Tag1"/><xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
> 	    </xsl:for-each>
> 	   </xsl:template>
> 	</xsl:stylesheet>
>
> My output was:
> 	Ta-Da:
> 	   This is just a {1} line.
>
> 	Ta-Da:
> 	   This is the second {1} line.
>
> Which has more spaces and linefeeds than I want.
> The spaces in the text output was exactly the same as the spaces in
> the original xml file. Shouldn't "strip-space" get rid of the
> linefeed and spaces in the original <Tag1> node? Will normalize-space
> help, and how to use it in the case where I need to apply-templates?
>
> Btw, I tried this on the latest version on both Xalan and libxslt.
>
> thanx,
> alice
>
>
>
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