Re: trying to drop leading/trailing WS text nodes from

  Robert, if you try your solution you make conclude, as I did,
  that the spacing offsets the listings nicely, rather
  than 'mixing' them too closely with the surrounding text?

If you can rely on the linebreaks always being there this is probably
true (or at least you can set the top and bottom margins for the display
to take the blank line into account) however if sometimes it's there and
sometimes not you get a more consistent appearance if you always remove
the linebreak and then space accordingly.

The solution in the quoted  archive is a little more complicated than
needed as you don't need to test
starts-with($astr,'
') or
starts-with($astr,'
')">
as there won't be any #xD or #xA#xD pairs as the XML parser normalises
all line endings to #xA before XSLT starts.

David

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