Use the normalize-space() function.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: knocte [mailto:knocte@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 September 2005 10:30
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Indentation question
> 
> 2005/9/2, Joris Gillis <roac@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Tempore 09:06:47, die 09/02/2005 AD, hinc in 
> xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit knocte <knocte@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Sometimes when I deal with XSLT, if I use this indent method:
> > >
> > > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no" />
> > >
> > > Then I obtain all the results in one line, no EOL's.
> > >
> > > But I have found a case where this is not true, why?
> > 
> > Because your xslt snippet contains non-whitespace-only text 
> nodes with line-breaks, which are copied in an unaffected 
> matter (whitespaces preserved) to the result tree.
> > 
> > To avoid this, change
> > 
> > >             <xsl:when test="LoginName">
> > >               1
> > >             </xsl:when>
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > <xsl:when test="LoginName">1</xsl:when>
> > 
> > or to
> > 
> > <xsl:when test="LoginName">
> >         <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
> > </xsl:when>
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> >
> 
> Thanks Joris. I have fixed some annoying whitespaces with this advice.
> But now I have another related issue:
> 
> In HTML I have the advantage of writing a paragraph using EOL's and
> don't worrying about the end view of the page because EOL's will be
> converted to whitespaces.
> 
> Example:
> 
>   <p>
>     This is a easy-to-edit paragraph because
>     I can break it into multiple lines.
>   <p>
> 
> The result in the browser will not contain any line-breaks.
> 
> Now, doesn't XSLT provide a "similar" way to edit paragraphs without
> sending unnecessary line-breaks to the final result?
> 
> I mean, given this:
> 
>   <xsl:when test="whatever">
>     <p>
>       This is my paragraph which I want to break in multiple
>       lines so as to edit it later more easily.
>     </p>
>   </xsl:when>
> 
> If I use this, I obtain the unnecessary blank spaces which are present
> between the words "multiple" and "lines". If I use <xml:text> with the
> whole paragraph I will obtain the same because I still use
> line-breaks:
> 
>   <xsl:when test="whatever">
>     <p>
>       <xsl:text>
>         This is my paragraph which I want to break in multiple
>         lines so as to edit it later more easily.
>       </xsl:text>
>     </p>
>   </xsl:when>
> 
> The unique solution I have is to use <xsl:text> for EVERY LINE. This
> is not very comfortable to maintain and also I have to worry about
> putting a final whitespace at the end of each line (except the last
> one) so as not to concatenate incorrectly:
> 
>   <xsl:when test="whatever">
>     <p>
>       <xsl:text>This is my paragraph which I want to break in multiple
> </xsl:text>
>       <xsl:text>lines so as to edit it later more easily.</xsl:text>
>     </p>
>   </xsl:when>
> 
> Is there any better solution out there for this issue?
> 
>   Thanks, 
> 
>     Andrew
> 
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