XML/XSLT stylesheet/strip space
strip-space elements="*"
<source lang="xml">
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.ru/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>
</source>
strip-space elements="color"
<source lang="xml">
File: Data.xml <colors>
<color>red</color> <color>yellow</color> <color>blue</color> <color></color>
</colors> File: Transform.xslt <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" /> <xsl:strip-space elements="color" /> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> Output: <colors>
<color>red</color> <color>yellow</color> <color>blue</color> <color/>
</colors>
</source>