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Rick Anderson wrote: > sometimes I get extra tabs. I don't know why. > Is there a way to make the white space more visibile for better > debugging? <xsl:template match="text()"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'	 ','→↓')"/> </xsl:template> (affects text nodes reached via xsl:apply-templates, not the ones you create with xsl:text) Although this explanation might help even more... <field name="SSN" type="varchar2(9)" keytype="NOT NULL"> <desc>Social Security Number </desc> </field> When you do stuff like this, note that the whitespace that is adjacent to the non-whitespace text is considered part of the same text node. This whitespace is not in a node by itself. If it were, then your xsl:strip-space would get rid of it. Before the strip-space takes effect, you have the following nodes (I'll use \t and \n to represent tabs for indenting and newline characters, respectively): |__text '\t' |__element 'field' in no namespace | \attribute 'name'='SSN' | \attribute 'type'='varchar2(9)' | \attribute 'keytype'='NOT NULL' | \namespace prefix 'xml'='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' |__text '\n\t\t' |__element 'desc' in no namespace | | \namespace prefix 'xml'='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' | |__text 'Social Security Number\n\t\t' |__text '\n\t' xsl:strip-space will get rid of just the text nodes that contain whitespace only. If you can't get the whitespace out of your other text nodes by adjusting the original XML, try using the normalize-space() function, which will chop off leading and trailing whitespace and condense consecutive whitespace characters down to a single space character. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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