strip-space elements="*" : strip space « XSLT stylesheet « XML

1. XML
2. XSLT stylesheet
3. strip space

strip-space elements="*"

File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<python version="2.3">
  <keyword>while</keyword>
  <keyword>continue</keyword>
  <keyword>def</keyword>
  <keyword>elif</keyword>
  <keyword>assert</keyword>
</python>


File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
  extension-element-prefixes="saxon">
  <xsl:output method="xml" saxon:indent-spaces="2" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

  <xsl:template match="python">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:attribute name="version"><xsl:value-of
          select="@version" />
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:apply-templates>
        <xsl:sort />
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="keyword">
    <xsl:copy-of select="." />
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<python version="2.3">
   <keyword>assert</keyword>
   <keyword>continue</keyword>
   <keyword>def</keyword>
   <keyword>elif</keyword>
   <keyword>while</keyword>
</python>

 

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