Dear xsl-list,

Thanks to everyone for the quick responses, and especially to Norm for
sharing the template that I should have written in the first place.

Best,

David

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 11:23 AM Norm Tovey-Walsh ndw@xxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I would be grateful for any insights.
>
> This seems to work, YMMV.
>
> <xsl:template match="p">
>   <p>
>     <xsl:for-each-group select="node()"
>                         group-adjacent="self::q or
> self::text()[normalize-space(.)='']">
>       <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
>           <q>
>             <xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
>               <xsl:if test="position() gt 1">
>                 <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>               </xsl:if>
>               <xsl:sequence select="node()"/>
>             </xsl:for-each>
>           </q>
>         </xsl:when>
>         <xsl:otherwise>
>           <xsl:sequence select="current-group()"/>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>       </xsl:choose>
>     </xsl:for-each-group>
>   </p>
> </xsl:template>
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> https://nwalsh.com/
>
> > We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not
> > unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
> > thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we
> > can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them
> > on.--Richard Feynman