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XSL Experts --

I'm trying to prevent the first occurrence of a child tag from line
breaking.

So for example I have the following xml:

<law>
	<section>
		<amended>
			<catchline>This is the title</catchline>
			<para>This is paragraph 1</para>
			<para>This is paragraph 2</para>
			<para>This is paragraph 3</para>
		</amended>
	</section>
</law>

I would want the output after running the xsl to look similar to this:

This is the title.  This is paragraph 1
This is paragraph 2
This is paragraph 3

Currently what I've tried in my xsl is this:
 <xsl:template match="amended/para">
                <xsl:for-each select = "child::node()">
			<xsl:choose>
				
<xsl:when test="child::node()[not(.=normalize-space(.))][1][self::para]
	<fo:inline>
		<xsl:value-of select = "." />
	</fo:inline>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
	<fo:block>
		<xsl:value-of select = "."/>
	</fo:block>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xslchoose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

I think the "<xsl:when test =
				"child::node()[not(.=normalize-space(.))][1][self::para]"
is what is wrong.  I've tried looking up all the pieces of this segment
of code, but have no real understanding what it is doing.  It is
something I pulled from a mail list archive.

Thanks for any and all help!

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