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> hi
> i have a stylesheet that should remove unnecessary tags
> with non-breakable-spaces like '<p> </p>'
> my input file is XP-Word-HTML which is >completely invalid :)
> so I JTidy it and convert it to xhtml with UTF-8 encoding
> next i want to use my stylesheet to filter out all unnecessary tags
> including empty elements & those with nbsps.
>
> i've tried:
>
> (1) test="normalize-space(.)" on each p node
>
> and
>
> (2) declaring nbsp as an ENTITY and then finding it between p tags
>
> test="p=nbsp"
>
> but neither works - i still get <p>&#xAO;</p> in my output-xml
>
> any ideas ?
> ez & thanks for replys
> hirez
>
> STYLESHEET
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
> <!ENTITY nbsp "*">
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no" encoding="UTF-8"/>
>
> <!-- p elements: remove empty tags -->
> <xsl:template match="p">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="not(normalize-space(.))">
> <empty>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </empty>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <content>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </content>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> INPUT FILE
> is an xhtml file
> (formerly winXPword-html after a JTidy)
> looks something like this if i view it in UTF-8:
>
> <p>valid text</p>
>
> <p> </p>
>
> <p>valid text</p>
> -----------------------------------
>
> BUT looks like this if i view it
> in ISO-8859-1 (latin 1)
> whats this ? (Acirc and a space ?)
>
> <p>valid text</p>
>
> <p>Â </p>
>
> <p>valid text</p>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> OUTPUT FILE
> my ouput looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> ....
> <p>valid text</p>
>
> <p> </p><p> </p>
>
> <p>valid text</p>
> ....