Re: Suppressing Newline Character

Steve W wrote:

> My XML (sometimes) looks like this :
>
> <DATA>
> abc
> def
> </DATA>
>
>
> I need to transform this to some javascript on my html page that looks
> something like :
>
> jFunction('abcdef');
>
> but I get
>
> jFunction('abc&#xA;def');
>
> which I appreciate is not surprising as there is a new line in my data.
>
> What is the easiest way of detecting and removing the newline character when
> I do the transform ?
>  
use xslt translate()

<xsl:value-of select="translate(someelement,'&#xA;','')"/>

u could also use xsl:strip-space or the normalize-space() function as
well....

check out the following to get a better understanding of these
whitespace type issues

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/whitespace.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/whitespace.html

gl, Jim Fuller

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