How to remove Attribute Space

rangeshram · November 27th, 2009, 06:31 AM

Hi,

We would like to remove the unwanted space which is generated after the locator attribute.

Input:

Code:

<index.level level="3"><name>Administration proposal to increase tax rate by 0.3 percent opposed, "decoupling" proposal accepted, text</name> <locator punct.before=" ">26:A-5</locator> <locator punct.before=", ">D-1</locator>
</index.level>

Xslt:

Code:

<!-- For Index-Level-->
<xsl:template match="index.level">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@level='3'">
		<xsl:element name="p"><xsl:attribute name="style">padding-left: 4em;</xsl:attribute> 
			<strong><xsl:text>â</xsl:text><font color ="DarkViolet">
			<xsl:apply-templates/></font></strong>
		</xsl:element>
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="@level='4'">
		<xsl:element name="p"><xsl:attribute name="style">padding-left: 6em;</xsl:attribute><strong>ââ<font color ="MediumBlue">
			<xsl:apply-templates/></font></strong>            
		</xsl:element>
		</xsl:when>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>

<!--For Locator-->
<xsl:template match="locator[@punct.before]">
        <xsl:variable name="punct"><xsl:value-of select="@punct.before"/></xsl:variable><span style = "color:DarkSlateGray;"><span style = "color:DeepPink;"><xsl:value-of select="$punct"/></span><xsl:apply-templates/></span>
    </xsl:template>

Output:

Code:

âAdministration proposal to increase tax rate by 0.3 percent opposed, "decoupling" proposal accepted, text 26:A-5 , D-1

In the above output, space comma(Red Color) should be comma i.e., 26:A-5, D-1

Please advice for deleting unwanted space before the locator..

Thanks,

Martin Honnen · November 27th, 2009, 07:05 AM

Insert

Code:

<xsl:strip-space elements="index.level"/>

in your stylesheet (as a child of the xsl:stylesheet element).

rangeshram · November 27th, 2009, 07:41 AM

As per your reply, if we code as

Code:

<xsl:strip-space elements="index.level"/>

it will strip spaces for the index.level element including all the child elements.

But we would like to use the strip space for the particular element "locator" so that we modify the code as

Code:

<xsl:strip-space elements="locator"/>

but in the output no differences was found.

Please clarify where we're struck.

Thanks,

Martin Honnen · November 27th, 2009, 07:51 AM

Well your locator elements do not contain any white space that could be stripped so I am not sure why you think attempting to strip space from those elements would change anything.
The index.level elements has white space between its child elements and you do not seem to want to output that white space so that is why I suggested to apply strip-space to that element.
If you want to preserve certain white space and omit other white space then you need to explain exactly what determines which white space to preserve and which to omit.