RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to remove surplus spaces.

["Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave at bcs dot co dot nz>]

This is for XSL - Joe is using DSSSL style sheets....

At 04:56 29/03/2002 -0500, Glass, Eric wrote:
>Add something like:
>
><xsl:strip-space elements="quote footnote"/>
>
>to the stylesheet.  Similarly, if you want to strip space as a default with
>specified exceptions you could say something like:
>
><xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
><xsl:preserve-space elements="para"/>
>
>These are top-level elements (children of xsl:stylesheet) -- I'm not yet
>that familiar with the layout of the stylesheets, so I'm not sure where it
>would be most appropriate to add this.  Anyone have a suggestion?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Josef Karthauser [mailto:joe@tao.org.uk]
>Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:20 PM
>To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to remove surplus spaces.
>
>
>Is there an easy way to remove surplus spaces in things like:
>
>     <quote> something </quote>?
>
>I'd like to have the stylesheet automatically remove the leading and
>trailing white space.
>
>Also in cases like:
>
>    some text <footnote> .... </footnote>
>
>I'd like to have all the white space before the opening <footnote>
>gobbled up.
>
>I'm using openjade and the DSSSL stylesheets.
>
>Joe