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knocte <knocte@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > In HTML I have the advantage of writing a paragraph using EOL's and > don't worrying about the end view of the page because EOL's will be > converted to whitespaces. > > Example: > > <p> > This is a easy-to-edit paragraph because > I can break it into multiple lines. > <p> > > The result in the browser will not contain any line-breaks. Ahhh, but the browser SAW the line breaks. It just chose to treat them as spaces. When you run a transformation and get breaks and spaces in the XML, that is no different than than your HTML analogy. Whomever _consumes_ the XML needs to treat newlines as spaces. Which keeps to your HTML/browser analogy. Don't assume that newlines in your XML breaks anything or is inheritly wrong. If this XML is later feed to a browser (which I assume b/c your example contains H2, P, etc...), then let the browser ignore the newlines. I.e. dont try and add more muscle to your stylesheets than necessary. Caveat: if this is a B2B application where newlines are not "desirable", then continue w/ the 'normalize-space' solution.
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