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Re: [docbook-apps] trim space off tag contents
> >The normalize-space() function in XSL removes leading
> >and trailing spaces, and replaces internal sequences
> >of whitespace with a single space character.
>
> If its many elements, then an identity transform with
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> does the same job.
> Replace * with as many elements as needed
> or use...
> <xsl:preserve-space elements="pre"/> or whatever.
> Can be used in combination.
This does not solve our problems. Here is a fragment:
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo "<p>Hello World</p>"; ?>
</body>
</html>
]]>
</programlisting>
This will effectively output a code with the leading spaces (the newlines
after the programlisting tag and after the <![CDATA[ tag) present, and with
the trailing newlines also present. We would not like to put the <![CDATA[
and the programlisting and the first line of the example on the same line to
avoid this, for readability reasons. But we would not like to get those
newlines on the output.
<xsl:strip-space> is to strip whitespace-only text nodes, AFAIK, which is not
the case here. normalize-space() will remove any multiple spaces, which will
highly distract the formatting of the example above. So none of these are
solutions. As I said, we would like to strip of the leading and trailing
spaces, and nothing else. Others, using <programlisting> must have been faced
the same problem, I guess...
Thanks,
Goba
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