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On Nov 01 09:59, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> > file.xml:
> > <info>
> >   <link url="231243342">SpazeIRC</link> blablablabla bla . bldse
> >   dfseld s3242. 43 <link url="2342342">har</link>.
> > </info>
> >
> > text.xsl:
> > <xsl:template match="text()">
> >         <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > The output I get:
> > SpazeIRCblablablabla bla . bldse dfseld s3242. 43har.
> >
> > I want it to look like this:
> > SpazeIRC blablablabla bla . bldse dfseld s3242. 43 har.
> >         ^                                         ^
[snip]
> 
> The problem is actually coming from the fact that you're looking at
> the individual text nodes when actually you're interested in the
> complete string value of the info element. The string value of the
> link element is the concatenation of all its descendant text nodes,
> which works out as:
> 
>   "\n  SpazeIRC blablablabla bla . bldse dfseld s3242. 43 har.\n"
> 
> When you normalize that, you get the string that you are after. So
> rather than having a template that matches individual text nodes, have
> a template that matches the info element and gives you its normalized
> string value:
> 
> <xsl:template match=="info">
>   <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" />
> </xsl:template>
>   
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Thanks for the answer. I can admit that I havnt read the theory on how xsl
works =) I try to learn by reading source.
Anyway I rearranged my template to look like the above and it works fine.
But In my larger work I need to have an template that matches "link". It
looks like this:

<xsl:template match="link">
	<xsl:apply-templates/><xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::link)+1"/><xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

What it does is to put [n] after the text in the element like this:

	"SpazeIRC[1] blablablabla bla . bldse dfseld s3242. 43 har[2]."

But now this template wont be applied. Is there a way I can temporary save
the result from normalize-space() in the "info" template, so I can process it
with my "link" template and have it outputed?


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