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XSLT

by Doug Tidwell
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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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> ...
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596000537Supplemental ContentCatalog PageErrata