Re: Removing unwanted space

Hi,

Alas, schema awareness is actually not a help for this particular case or
any case where the errant whitespace turns up in places where whitespace is
supposed to be significant (and frequently is).

I suppose something like schema-awareness, or actual schema awareness (XSD
awareness), might be "simulated" in XSLT given appropriate type definitions
in a particular schema (albeit not a general case). And out of the box (for
example) XSD permits designating "collapse" behavior over strings. But this
is harder (respecting whitespace and whitespace-only text nodes within
mixed content at arbitrary depths) and may be more easily configured via an
abstract spec ("treat a p-like element this way, a pre-like element another
way", etc.) than in a schema.

In any case -- once requirements are fully clear -- a
whitespace-normalization filter can be a handy thing to have around.

Cheers, Wendell


On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:54 PM Charles O'Connor coconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >If you use DTD parsing, you can declare specific elements as being
> element-only (by giving a list  of all  permitted element children without
> #PCDATA), and then >whitespace in such a context may be dropped by the
> parser or application (e.g. Saxon) automatically.
>
> Alas, we are limited to non-DTD-aware transforms for the present.
>
>
> 
>
>

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