Article:		Controlling Whitespace, Part 1
Subject:		stripping out tabs and cr
Date:		2004-12-06 07:59:34
From:		Bob DuCharme
Response to: stripping out tabs and cr
Which stylesheet do you mean, what do you mean by "empty leafs," and which XSLT processor are you using? Bob

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• stripping out tabs and cr
  2004-12-07 05:03:57 Boris Rousseau [Reply]
  
  I am using this code:
  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0">

  
  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

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

  
  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  
  </xsl:stylesheet>

  
  Nevertheless, I am still getting some whitespaces (due to carriage returns and/or tabs). And I am using the Java 2 javax.xml.transform class as the XSLT processor.
  
  

  • stripping out tabs and cr
    2004-12-07 05:49:53 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
    
    First, check that your xmlns:xsl attribute value has a closing quote, because it didn't in the one that you included in your message.

    
    Second, try it with Saxon and Xalan. I tried it with Saxon, Xalan Java, and libxslt after fixing the quote problem described above, and it worked properly with all of them. If this is the case with you, then the problem is in your use of the javax.xml.transform class and not in the stylesheet.

    
    Bob
    
    

    • stripping out tabs and cr
      2004-12-07 06:40:31 Boris Rousseau [Reply]
      
      I have solved the problem in my java code while parsing the document instead of using xslt.

      
      Thanks for your help.