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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] trim space off tag contents
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Hi! > > We used to have a DSSSL customized DocBook sheet, but are migrating to XSL > based customizations. There are only a few things which are currently not > correctly handled by the XSL sheets. > > One of those is that we would like to strip the space from the begining of and > from the end of some tags. In DSSSL we simply used 'process-children-trim', > which trimmed the leading and ending whitespace from the child tag processed. > > It is obvious that xslt does not provide any direct solution for this. I have > also looked into the DocBook lib, but find nothing useful for this. Has > anyone solved such a problem using XSLT? The normalize-space() function in XSL removes leading and trailing spaces, and replaces internal sequences of whitespace with a single space character. If you are working with a string at that point, it could help. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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