Steve W wrote:

>My XML (sometimes) looks like this :
>
><DATA>
>abc
>def
></DATA>
>
>
>I need to transform this to some javascript on my html page that looks
>something like :
>
>jFunction('abcdef');
>
>but I get
>
>jFunction('abc&#xA;def');
>
>which I appreciate is not surprising as there is a new line in my data.
>
>What is the easiest way of detecting and removing the newline character when
>I do the transform ?
>  
>
use xslt translate()

<xsl:value-of select="translate(someelement,'&#xA;','')"/>

u could also use xsl:strip-space or the normalize-space() function as
well....

check out the following to get a better understanding of these
whitespace type issues

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/whitespace.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/whitespace.html

gl, Jim Fuller