Normalize-space() not working

AForgue · December 5th, 2003, 10:26 AM

I am having some issues with the normalize-space() function - basically, extra whitespace is not being trimmed.

Input XML:

Code:

<text:p text:style-name="Text body">
   <text:span text:style-name="T1">Agency problem  </text:span>A situation in ...</text:p>

XSLT Template:

Code:

<xsl:template match="text:p">
   <glossaryterm>
      <term><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(child::text:span/text())"/></term>
      <definition><xsl:value-of select="text()"/></definition>
   </glossaryterm>
</xsl:template>

If I replace normalize-space(child::text:span/text()) with normalize-space(' foobar ') the extra space is trimmed correctly. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Aaron

armmarti · December 5th, 2003, 11:38 AM

The function normalize-space() removes starting and trailing whitespace and replaces all other whitespace characters by single whitespace. And also the function takes as an argument a string(if not specified, the context node's string value is taken). Your code must work properly I think, it's quite ok. What do you get as a result?

Regards,
Armen

AForgue · December 5th, 2003, 11:53 AM

This is the output xml from the transformation (Notice the two spaces after "Agency problem"):

Code:

<glossaryterm>
   <term>Agency problem  </term>
   <definition>A situation in which a firmsâ top managers (i.e., the âagentsâ of the firmsâ owners) do not act in the best interests of the shareholders.</definition>
</glossaryterm>

Aaron

armmarti · December 5th, 2003, 12:30 PM

I'm applying this stylesheet:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:text="aaa">
    <xsl:template match="text:p">
   <glossaryterm>
      <term><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(child::text:span/text())"/></term>
      <definition><xsl:value-of select="text()"/></definition>
   </glossaryterm>
</xsl:template>    
</xsl:stylesheet>

to the XML doc:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<text:p text:style-name="Text body" xmlns:text="aaa">
   <text:span text:style-name="T1">Agency problem  </text:span>A situation in ...</text:p>

and getting this output:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><glossaryterm xmlns:text="aaa"><term>Agency problem</term><definition>
   </definition></glossaryterm>

I'm using Saxon 6.5.2. May be your XSLT processor is doing messy things?

Regards,
Armen

AForgue · December 5th, 2003, 12:39 PM

I am using Xselerator for development purposes, and when I use the stylesheet in OpenOffice as an XML Export Filter it also produces the incorrect results.

Who knows. I might just need to strip the spaces later on in the process.

Thanks for your help!