Re: another whitespace questions (in XML this time)

beautiful, it worked. I did have to a bunch of
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
(for the line breaks), but it does work. hmm, I did try this tag before,
specifying EACH element I wanted to cut the white space out, but not the *
thingie :)
thanks bob.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert C. Lyons" <boblyons@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:32 PM
Subject: RE:  another whitespace questions (in XML this time)


> Hi Runni.
>
> Try adding the following instruction to your
> stylesheet:
>
>  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bob
>
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/>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> so, after going through all of the whitespace emails from this weekend,
and
> going through the QA on the site, I can't seem to find anyone with the
same
> problem I'm having.
> I'm using xsl to create a .txt file so I need to have maximum control over
> white space. I put <xsl:output method="text" /> on the top of the xsl
file,
> and I'm wrapping every single text I have with <xsl:text>text</xsl:text>
> elements. however, since my XML file is indented with tabs, those show up
on
> the some of the elements, and then they don't show up on others. xml file
> (the short SHORT version):
>
> <notification>
>  <event>
>   <date>07/26/2001</date>
>   <venueId>1234</venueId>
>   <venueName>VenueName1</venueName>
>   <eventTitle>title1</eventTitle>
>   <price>1</price>
>   <startTime>7:45p</startTime>
>   <artist>fgdfg</artist>
>   <genre>GenreComing1</genre>
>   <description>desc1</description>
>  </event>
>  <venueInfo>
>   <venueId>venueid3</venueId>
>   <venueName>venueName</venueName>
>   <venueAddress>address3</venueAddress>
>   <venueCity>city3</venueCity>
>   <venueState>state3</venueState>
>   <venueZip>zip3</venueZip>
>   <venuePhoneOffice>office phone3</venuePhoneOffice>
>   <venuePhonePublic>public phone3</venuePhonePublic>
>   <eventDate value="event1">event3</eventDate>
>   <eventDate value="event2">event3</eventDate>
>  </venueInfo>
> </notification>
>
> the venueInfo stuff works beautifully, and DOES NOT indent. the event stuf
> does. nothing i do in the xsl file seems to matter to the results - they
are
> both written in essentially the same way..
>
> I'm using xalan java parser.
> any suggestions?
>
> Runni
>
>
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