On 04/06/2021 19:54, Charles O'Connor coconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 04/06/2021 18:58, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> If you use DTD parsing, you can declare specific elements as being 
>> element-only (by giving a list  of all  permitted element children 
>> without #PCDATA), and then whitespace in such a context may be
>> dropped by the parser or application (e.g. Saxon) automatically.
> 
> Alas, we are limited to non-DTD-aware transforms for the present.

Depending on the volume and [in]consistency of the data, it may be worth
creating one or more nonce DTDs to overcome the problem Liam mentions.

Peter