Thanx alot, that worked like a charm ;)
regards, Stefan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wei Tjong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 8:15 AM Subject: Re: whitespaces using xsl:copy-of > Hi Stephan, > > Try <xsl:strip-space elements="tagA"/>. This is a top level element, so it > must come after the <xsl:stylesheet> element. > > Best regards, > Liaw Wei Tjong > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stefan Pietschmann > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 12:39 AM > Subject: whitespaces using xsl:copy-of > > > hi guys, > > at the moment I'm writing a Transformer for Cocoon 2.0.4 and my problem is > as follows: > > There are certain tags not touched by the xslt a step earlier in the > pipeline and I want to read them out. let's say the structure is: > > <tagA> > <sub/> > </tagA> > > Now I simply use xsl:copy-of in my XSLT to copy tagA over in the output, so > I am able to read it out in the following Transformer step. > There I can search for tagA and make it a Node variable. I want to check > whether the first childnode of it is called "sub" or "seb". > When I just output all the childnodes of tagA with their names > (getNodeName()) I get > child1: "#text: " > child2: "sub: ...." > child3: "#text: " > > well, it seems obvious that there are whitespaces before and after the sub > tag, which occur when using copy-of with an indented (a.k.a pretty-printed) > document. > If i change the original to be like <tagA><sub/></tagA> sub is the first > and only childnode, otherwise not. > > Now the question: Can I somehow get rid of whitespaces between tags when > copying tagA over to the output in my xslt? > > Thanx for your help and I hope you got what i meant :P > > Stefan Pietschmann > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]