When I apply the below template to my xml I get 
 in
place of white space. How do can I remove the 
? I
thought <xsl:strip-space> would romove the hard spaces in the xml.
xsl:strip-space is about removing white-space-only text nodes.
If you want to replace newline characters by space characters, use the
normalize-space() function.
Newlines in attribute values are always serialized as 
 to ensure
that they survive the round trip through serialization and parsing.
Michael Kay
###########Template Used##########
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/ | node() | @* | comment() |
processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
########### XML #################
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BODY>
<P style="font-size:12.0">
<SPAN style="font-family:'Times New
Roman','Times
New Roman',Serif;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
font-stretch:normal;
font-variant:normal;
color:#000000">CHAPTER 2 </SPAN>
</P>
<P style="font-size:12.0">
<SPAN style="font-family:'Times New
Roman','Times
New Roman',Serif;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
font-stretch:normal;
font-variant:normal;
color:#000000">TITLE </SPAN>
</P>
</BODY>
############# OUTPUT ################
<BODY>
<P style="font-size:12.0">
<SPAN style="font-family:'Times New
Roman','Times New Roman',Serif;
 font-size:12.0pt;

font-style:normal;
 font-weight:bold;

font-stretch:normal;
 font-variant:normal;

color:#000000">CHAPTER 2 </SPAN>
</P>
<H1 style="font-size:12.0">
<SPAN style="font-family:'Times New
Roman','Times New Roman',Serif;
 font-size:12.0pt;

font-style:normal;
 font-weight:bold;

font-stretch:normal;
 font-variant:normal;

color:#000000">TITLE </SPAN> </BODY>
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