Re: [xsl] How do I remove the unnecessary white spaces

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt at multiconn dot com>]

Mailer Mailer wrote:


> <xsl:template name="getDepthFirstNumber">
> <xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::*) +
> count(preceding::*)"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I am calling this template again and again in other
> template using call-template.
> The place where I use this, it gives me lots of spaces
> and then the value is printed.

This template can't cause any space to be printed, the problem probably 
is where you call it, can you show us a typical invocation of this 
template ?


> I tried using the strip-space also but it does not
> work and it spoils my parent child calculations.
> This is again a question why strip space messes my
> parent child count etc?

May be because whitespace only text nodes you are stripping out are 
child nodes of their parents and you count they. It depends on how you 
count parent child nodes.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel


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