Re: Removing nodes with text content ?

I would like to remove the intermediary<phrase>  nodes to avoid line
breaks (which are highly desirable on other places, but here are
annoying me), and thus having everything on a single line (using the
docbook stylesheets, already customized).

- to avoid line breaks in the output using normalize-space() is often useful
- xsl:strip-space might help as well.

<xsl:template match="phrase[@role='rtf']">
    	<xsl:copy>
    		<xsl:apply-templates select="./*"/>
    	</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="* | @*">
        <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/></xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

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