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Re: Stylesheet to remove comments and insignificant whitespace

2003-02-28 09:02:02
Scott Moore wrote:

<xsl:template match="text()">
 <xsl:if test="not(normalize-space(text()) = ' ')">

                                                ^

LF-only whitespace will pass this test, since normalized it's = '' not = '

'.

normalize-space() doesn't remove all whitespace, just condenses all adjacent
whitespace to one space.

But it does remove leading and trailing space, so
normalize-space('     ') = ''

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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