First question: It seems odd to me that the newline character would be
considered significant and not get stripped
newlines that are followed by non-white space characters are _never_
considered insignificatnt by XML or stripped by XSLT.
You want the normalize-space function,
select="normalize-space(vendor_name)"
David
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