Question

wondered if you could help me please? I have node in xml that is as followed

$LOG: 08880xbpnd $
fhdsafidsfsd
df
sd
fsd
f
sd
fsd

I was wondering is there anyway to make all the text go on to one line so that it then can be passsed through to a javascript function? so it would turn out like this

$LOG: 08880xbpnd $fhdsafidsfsddfsdfsdfsdfsd

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the normalize-space() function (used in the answer of andynormancx) does more than deleting newlines.

It deletes all leading and trailing whitespace and it replaces any group of inner contigious whitespace with a single space character.

In many cases we want to deleteonly one type of a white-space character (as in the current case — new lines (CR+LF is automatically normalized on reading by the XML parser to just LF).

The correct and safe way to do so is by using the standard XPath translate() function:

translate(., '
', '') 

returns a string obtained from the string-value of the current node in which any newline character is deleted.

Here is an example:

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0'   xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration='yes' indent='yes'/>    <xsl:template match='node()|@*'>     <xsl:copy>       <xsl:apply-templates select='node()|@*'/>     </xsl:copy>   </xsl:template>    <xsl:template match='text()'>     <xsl:value-of       select='translate(.,'&#xA;','')'/>   </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

When the above transformation is applied on this source XML document:

<t> $LOG: 08880xbpnd $ 'embedded    blanks    must    stay' df sd fsd f sd fsd </t> 

The result is on one line only, as required, and all embedded spaces are left intact:

<t>$LOG: 08880xbpnd $'embedded    blanks    must    stay'dfsdfsdfsdfsd</t>