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

[murray@stokely.org]

Uhm, he specified that this was for DSSSL.

Joe, I think you want the strip function in dblib.dsl.

     - Murray

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:56:48AM -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
>  
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