RE: A whitespace question, but probably not the same a

Ah, I love it when a plan comes together.  Thank you.  

I added another one of those magical templates to my xsl:
<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>

and now those ugly embedded tags work right and the spacing is right.  

I still needed:
<xsl:template match="cite4thiscase">
  {\ul\cf9 <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>\par }
</xsl:template>
for the other ones I handle directly, but that's to be expected.

Kerry.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:15 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  A whitespace question, but probably not the same as
the other one s



If you call normalize-space too early then you get the string value of
the nodes, which junks any element children.

So what you want to do is use apply-templates, then have a template
matching "text()" that just does <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
That way you apply normalisation (with a z) to every text part of the
mixed content, but not to any element nodes.

David

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