What do you mean "all spaces"? It only removes leading and trailing
spaces, and duplicate spaces, but it will leave a space between two
non-space characters if there was at least one...
If you read my original post or whole thread it says
I have an element,
Input
====
<given-name>A.H.</given-name>
Output
====
<given-name>A. H.</given-name> <!-- Notice the space after A. -->
Martin has given a nice solution for it and almost fits the bill except I
do not need space after "." in last initial.
The best I have done is below. Only the issue with <xsl:template
name="replace-substring"> which adds space even after the last initial. So
if I use normalize-space() it removes the extra space added by template or
MIGHT POSSIBLE I AM NOT CORRECTLY USING IT.
Hope this makes myself clear.
<xsl:template match="given-name">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(.)=2 and contains(.,'.')">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="string-length(.)=4 and contains(.,'.')">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before(., '.'), '. ',
substring-after(., '.'))"/> </xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-substring">
<xsl:with-param name="original" select="."/>
<xsl:with-param name="substring" select="'.'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replacement" select="'. '"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="replace-substring">
<xsl:param name="original"/>
<xsl:param name="substring"/>
<xsl:param name="replacement" select="'. '"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($original, $substring)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($original, $substring)"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="$replacement"/>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-substring">
<xsl:with-param name="original"
select="substring-after($original, $substring)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="substring" select="$substring"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replacement" select="$replacement"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$original"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
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