Re: [xml-dev] What is @xml:space about?

["John P. McCaskey" <groups@johnmccaskey.com>]

On 7/12/2012 9:54 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 14:18, John P. McCaskey wrote:
>>
>> <persName>
>>      His Excellency
>>      <forename>Edward</forename>
>>      <surname>Smith</surname>,
>>      Shire of <placeName>Westerland</placeName>
>> </persName>
>>
>> Clearly the encoder is expecting that during processing, space will get
>> collapsed and leading and trailing space will be trimmed.
>
> Ug normalising mixed content is hard:-)

I think the (pseudo-)code is just

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=1]">
     left-trim
</xsl:text>

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=last()]">
     right-trim
</xsl:text>

<xsl:template match="text()[position()=1 and position()=last()]">
     normalize-space
</xsl:text>

plus a filter to deal with xml:space='preserve'.

-- John