Re: XML to text - converting DITA to asciidoc

Thanks, the <xml:strip-space> did the trickSent from my Verizon, Samsung
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-------- Original message --------From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 12/9/23  10:45 AM  (GMT-08:00)
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re:  XML to text -
converting DITA to asciidoc On 09/12/2023 19:04, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:> 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>>> ======> * 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
descriptions]>>>>>>>> * 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
Key]>> ======>> 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>>Either strip space from
the input during input tree building with e.g. B  <xsl:strip-space
elements="*"/>or, if you want to normalize space in text nodes, use e.g. B 
<xsl:template match="text()"> B B B  <xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space()"/> B  </xsl:template>That way your
xsl:apply-templates will process any inline elements withmatching templates
and the encountered text nodes with above template.