Re: transforming from xml to text -- creates a blank l

Any white space in the output is generated by one of three possible ways

1) use of intent="yes"
   this does not apply here as the text output method never indents.
2) Whitespace copied from the source. 
3) Whitespace generated by the stylesheet.

So if you have blank lines in teh result it is either 2 or 3, but since
we haven't seen your source or stylesheet it's hard to guess.

I'd guess it is 2: and that you are applying templates to text nodes and
using the default template for text nodes, which is to copy them to the
result.

David

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