Re: XML to text - converting DITA to asciidoc

I'm trying to process complex inline DITA content to text and at the
same time both process inline markup and strip excess whitespace that
comes from having the content in a pretty printed format.

I suppose a quick fix might be to go through and un=pretty the XML in
a pre-pass. Anyone got something that does that?

Currently, I'm trying to process these files as they are in XML and
make nice text blocks in the converted content. I know that
normalize-space() will strip the space from text, but it doesn't allow
processing of the markup at the same time.

So if I have a call like

<xsl:apply-templates/>

I get this when processing an <li>

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* link:lnu1689300505181.dita[Step
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  3]

* link:txr1689300527868.dita[Step
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  4]

* Complete!

* link:fkt1688690571816.dita[Show me the primary landing
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  page]

* link:fto1689306405929.dita[Show me
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  tiles without

* link:https://example.com[Sample app]

*
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B  link:https://example.com[Security

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If I change that call to

<xsl:apply-templates select="normalize-space(.)"/>

I get clean text, but now I'm missing the processing of the inline
elements like these <xref>s

That way your xsl:apply-templates will process any inline elements with
matching templates and the encountered text nodes with above template.