I need to remove trailing space for all the elements. Any
help appreciated.
Input:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Toc>
<a> Say you want display this <emph type="b"> data</emph> in
the form of a sequentially numbered booklist.</a> </Toc>
Expected Output:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Toc>
<a>Say you want display this <emph type="b">data</emph> in
the form of a sequentially numbered booklist.</a> </Toc>
You've actually removed two leading spacs there (before "Say" and "data",
and you have left one leading/trailing space alone (in the text node that
follows the </a> end tag. I assume what you actually want to do is not to
remove trailing spaces, but to apply normalize-space to each text node.
The easiest way to achieve that is
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
</xsl:template>
and then make sure you are outputting all text using <xsl:apply-templates/>
rather than <xsl:value-of/>
Tried Coding:
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="normalize-space(*)"/>
</xsl:copy> </xsl:template>
For the above style sheet I'm getting error "apply-templates
expected node()" and I'm using saxon version 8.
I hope you have some understanding of what you've done wrong there. If not,
that suggests you really haven't yet understood what apply-templates does,
and rather than give you a terse explanation here, I'd suggest you curl up
with a good book for a couple of hours...
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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