Name
<xsl:strip-space> — Defines the source-document elements for which whitespace should be removed.
Category
Top-level element
Required Attributes
- elements
Contains a space-separated list of source document elements for which nonsignificant whitespace should be removed. Nonsignificant whitespace typically means text nodes that contain nothing but whitespace; whitespace that appears in and around text is preserved.
Optional Attributes
None.
Content
None. <xsl:strip-space> is an empty element.
Appears in
<xsl:strip-space> is a top-level element, and can only appear as a child of
<xsl:stylesheet>
.
Defined in
XSLT section 3.4, Whitespace Stripping.
Example
We’ll illustrate the <xsl:strip-space> element with the following stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="listing"/>
<xsl:variable name="newline">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:value-of select="/code-sample/title"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:for-each select="/code-sample/listing">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>We’ll use this stylesheet to process the following document:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <code-sample> <title>Conditional variable initialization</title> <listing> <type>int</type> <variable>y</variable> = <constant>23</constant>; <type>int</type> <variable>x</variable>; <keyword>if</keyword> ...