Question

Does anyone know what XSL code would remove the trailing whitespace after the last word in an element?

<p>This is my paragraph.  </p> 

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Look at the normalize-space() XPath function.

<xsl:template match='p'>   <p><xsl:value-of select='normalize-space()' /></p> </xsl:template> 

Be careful, there is a catch (which might or might not be relevant to you):

The […] function returns the argument string with whitespace normalized by stripping leading and trailing whitespace and replacing sequences of whitespace characters by a single space.

This means it also removes all line breaks and tabs and other whitespace and turns them into a single space.