Hi Chris,

 > I want to remove leading/trailing whitespace from certain DITA block 
elements. For example, I want to turn this:

I have been working with DITA and found that there is *no needs* to 
remove leading/trailing spaces when we publish it to PDF or HTML.

However one output format do needs removing whitespaces from the DITA 
input. It is Microsoft Word (.docx) output.

I have implemented this feature in the following codes:

https://github.com/AntennaHouse/ah-wml/blob/master/com.antennahouse.wml/xsl/dita2wml_convmerged3.xsl
https://github.com/AntennaHouse/ah-wml/blob/master/com.antennahouse.wml/xsl/dita2wml_text_map.xsl

What is your use case that needs removing leading/trailing whitespace?

Regards,

On 2022/01/03 10:58, Chris Papademetrious 
christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Dimitre,
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> Just some feedback from a novice... For me, this would be difficult to remember to determine if a node is in a sequence:
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> 	exists(index-of($seq, $n, id-equal#2))
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> A one-word operator for this would be easier for me to remember:
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> 	$n in $seq
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> 	$n is $seq
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> Hi everyone (again),
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> I was able to use the [$n intersect $seq] trick again today! And I'm proud of how it turned out, so I wanted to share it with you.
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> I want to remove leading/trailing whitespace from certain DITA block elements. For example, I want to turn this:
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> 	<p>   This is some text.</p>
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> into this:
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> 	<p>This is some text.</p>
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> But there are two tricky aspects:
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> 1. The leading/trailing whitespace could be buried in a lower-level inline element:
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> 	<p>   Here is some text.</p>
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> 	<p><b>   Here</b> is some text.</p>
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> 	<p><b><i>   Here</i></b> is some text.</p>
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> so I need to match the first effectively rendered descendant text() node of these block elements.
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> 2. Some DITA block elements allow other DITA block elements in them:
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> 	<p>   This is a paragraph element.</p>
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> 	<li>   This is a list element.</li>
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> 	<li>
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> 	  <p>   This is a paragraph element in a list element.</p>
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> 	</li>
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> so I need the sibling-adjacency check to stop at the lowest-level enclosing block element.
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> Here are the templates I came up with:
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>    <!-- look for leading/trailing text() nodes in these block elements -->
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>    <xsl:variable name="elements" select="//(desc|dt|entry|glossterm|li|p|pre|shortdesc|title)"/>
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>    <!-- remove leading whitespace from leading text() nodes in block elements -->
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>    <xsl:template match="text()
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>                         [matches(., '^\s+')]
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>                         [ancestor::*[. intersect $elements][not(descendant::*[. intersect $elements])]]
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>                         [not(ancestor-or-self::node()
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>                           [ancestor::*[. intersect $elements][not(descendant::*[. intersect $elements])]]
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>                           [preceding-sibling::node()]
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>                          )]">
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>      <xsl:variable name="results">
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>        <xsl:next-match/>  <!-- apply other templates, if needed -->
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>      <xsl:value-of select="replace($results, '^\s+', '')"/>
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>    </xsl:template>
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>    <!-- remove trailing whitespace from trailing text() nodes in block elements -->
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>    <xsl:template match="text()
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>                         [matches(., '\s+$')]
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>                         [ancestor::*[. intersect $elements][not(descendant::*[. intersect $elements])]]
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>                         [not(ancestor-or-self::node()
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>                           [ancestor::*[. intersect $elements][not(descendant::*[. intersect $elements])]]
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>                           [following-sibling::node()]
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>                          )]">
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>      <xsl:variable name="results">
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>        <xsl:next-match/>  <!-- apply other templates, if needed -->
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>      <xsl:value-of select="replace($results, '\s+$', '')"/>
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> Basically, it goes something like:
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> Find the text() node:
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> * That has leading/trailing whitespace
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> * That is within a block element that does not contain some other lower-level block element
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> * That is not itself, or has no ancestor up to (but not including) that block element, with a preceding/following sibling
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> The hardest part was figuring out how to get all ancestors up to the first block element, but not past that. The nesting of [descendant::*[...]] within [ancestor::*] is probably not the most performant way to do this, but it gets the job done.
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> And by using <xsl:next-match/>, the templates can work together to remove both leading and trailing whitespace from the same text() node, if needed.
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>   - Chris
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