This can be done easily even in XSLT 1.0 using the "trim" template of
FXSL (1.x).
For example, when this transformation (testTrim.xsl):
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:import href="trim.xsl"/>
<!-- to be applied on trim.xml -->
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
'<xsl:call-template name="trim">
<xsl:with-param name="pStr" select="string(/*)"/>
</xsl:call-template>'
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
is applied on this xml document:
<someText>
This is some text
</someText>
the following result is produced:
'This is some text'
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ben Stover
<bxstover(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Assume I have a XML doc where occasionally values appear with leading and
trailing blanks similar to
<aaa>
<bbb>
'3 blanks'somevalue'4 blanks'
</bbb>
</aaa>
Because blanks are probably removed by the mailing list system I put 'n
blanks' in the code above.
In reality real blanks are meant.
So how can I strip all such leading and trailing blanks (nad line breaks)
with XSLT?
The stripping should applied only to "atomic" values. That means that blanks
between e.g.
<aaa> and <bbb> should be kept. So the result should look like
<aaa>
<bbb>somevalue</bbb>
</aaa>
Moreover how can I strip all "atomic" blanks in a whole XML doc and not only
from a particular tag value?
Ben
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