Removing newlines between <para>s

["Shikareva, Ekaterina" <EShikareva@luxoft.com>]

Hello,

 

I have a task to combine a single DocBook XML file from several other source DocBook XML files. This is done with some Perl script. Next, I’m trying to prettify the result (also from inside my Perl script) using the following xslt stylesheet:

 

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

 

In this resulting XML, I get the following formatting:

 

    <section>

      <title>Title</title>

      <informaltable>

        <tgroup cols="2">

          <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>

          <tbody>

            <row>

              <entry>Some text</entry>

              <entry>

                <para>Some text</para>

                <para>Some text</para>

              </entry>

            </row>

          </tbody>

        </tgroup>

      </informaltable>

    </section>

 

But I need the <para>s inside the <entry> to stick together:

 

    <section>

      <title>Title</title>

      <informaltable>

        <tgroup cols="2">

          <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>

          <tbody>

            <row>

              <entry>Some text</entry>

              <entry>

                <para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para>

              </entry>

            </row>

          </tbody>

        </tgroup>

      </informaltable>

    </section>

 

Even if these <para>s are on the same line in my source file, in the combined file they jump to different lines because of the formatting and indenting.

 

What changes shall I introduce in my xslt stylesheet to solve this?

 

Thank you!

 

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Best regards,

 

Ekaterina Shikareva

Senior Technical Writer

 

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