Re: normalize-space problems with child elements

At 2005-03-29 12:39 -0500, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

But that does weird stuff to the `<code>` child elements -- it
removes the space before and after the `<code>foo</code>` so that the word
"foo" adjoins the surrounding text in the description output.

That's not exactly "weird", it is doing exactly what you asked for (but it isn't what you want).

How about preserving the existence of leading and trailing white-space by wrapping the node before normalization and unwrapping it after?

t:\ftemp>type jelks.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
    <description>
    This decribes how <code>FOO</code> is
    supposed to work.  Now "<code>bar</code>" is a
    different story altogether.
    </description>

t:\ftemp>type jelks.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="description">
  <xsl:text/>!<xsl:apply-templates />!<xsl:text/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="code">
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::node() and
                            following-sibling::node()]">
  <xsl:variable name="ns" select="normalize-space(concat('x',.,'x'))"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring( $ns, 2, string-length($ns) - 2 )" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::node() and
                            not( following-sibling::node() )]">
  <xsl:variable name="ns" select="normalize-space(concat('x',.))"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring( $ns, 2, string-length($ns) - 1 )" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[not( preceding-sibling::node() ) and
                            following-sibling::node()]">
  <xsl:variable name="ns" select="normalize-space(concat(.,'x'))"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring( $ns, 1, string-length($ns) - 1 )" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[not( preceding-sibling::node() ) and
                            not( following-sibling::node() )]">
  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

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