no newlines or carriage returns

i need to create a string for a parameter to a javasrcipt function, but i'm
having problems making sure my output has no newlines/carriage returns which
result in an unterminated string.

i have 
<xsl:output indent="no"/>
<xsl:strip-space="*"/>

this fixed most of my problems along with initializing a JDOM XMLOutputter
with newlines="false"

a problem i just encounteres was that when i am passed an element that has a
newline in its content, ie

<ipAddr>

1.2.3.4 / 24
</ipAddr>

is there any way to read this element in as
<ipAddr>1.2.3.4 / 24</ipAddr>
perserving the regular space and text while removing newlines & carriage
returns?

thanks,
matt alexander

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