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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] trim space off tag contents
You guess right. But so far, I had to start programlisting contents and the like at the very first column of my XML source, which indeed spoiled readability tremendously. If there is a solution to keep XML source indentation and yet have indentation in the transformed result relative to the first source line, I would greatly appreciate to hear about it, too. Patrick Gabor Hojtsy schrieb: >>>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...
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