The normalize-space

[kollatjorva]

Hi all

I'm trying to get a value from an xml node 'Publisher' use the value as
a name of an .css class. This works fine until I get a value from the
Publisher node with white space in it.
I've been trying to use normalize-space function on this but I can't
make this work

here is what I'm trying to do

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="normali ze-space(Publisher )"/></xsl:attribute>

Can anyone help me, I've spent to much time on this already..
Thanks
K.

[Joe Fawcett]

normalize-space doesn't remove spaces, just trims off the ends and compacts
multiple whitespace to a single character.
Perhaps you can use translate(' ', '_') to change all spaces to an
underscore, maybe after normalize-space?

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name

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Hi all

I'm trying to get a value from an xml node 'Publisher' use the value as
a name of an .css class. This works fine until I get a value from the
Publisher node with white space in it.
I've been trying to use normalize-space function on this but I can't
make this work

here is what I'm trying to do

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="normali ze-space(Publisher )"/></xsl:attribute>

Can anyone help me, I've spent to much time on this already..
Thanks
K.

[Martin Honnen]

ko*********@gma il.com wrote:

I'm trying to get a value from an xml node 'Publisher' use the value as
a name of an .css class. This works fine until I get a value from the
Publisher node with white space in it.
I've been trying to use normalize-space function on this but I can't
make this work

here is what I'm trying to do

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="normali ze-space(Publisher )"/></xsl:attribute>

CSS class names can't contain white space, if you end up with e.g.
<div class="class name">
then the div elements belongs to two classes, one with name "class", the
second with name "name".

If you want to strip spaces from Publisher then use e.g.

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="transla te(Publisher, ' ', '')"/></xsl:attribute>

If you want to use '-' instead of space then you could do e.g.

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="transla te(normalize-space(Publisher ), ' ', '-')"/></xsl:attribute>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[kollatjorva]

ML wrote:

Could you give an example of the value in Publisher?
ML

---
http://milambda.blogspot.com/

Hi
The value is 'Pan vision' and I have to remove the whitespace or
replace it with _ so it will be 'PanVision' or 'Pan_Vision'.

[kollatjorva]

Thanks Martin - this works like a charm :o)

Martin Honnen wrote:

ko*********@gma il.com wrote:

I'm trying to get a value from an xml node 'Publisher' use the value as
a name of an .css class. This works fine until I get a value from the
Publisher node with white space in it.
I've been trying to use normalize-space function on this but I can't
make this work

here is what I'm trying to do

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="normali ze-space(Publisher )"/></xsl:attribute>

CSS class names can't contain white space, if you end up with e.g.
<div class="class name">
then the div elements belongs to two classes, one with name "class", the
second with name "name".

If you want to strip spaces from Publisher then use e.g.

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="transla te(Publisher, ' ', '')"/></xsl:attribute>

If you want to use '-' instead of space then you could do e.g.

<xsl:attribut e name="class">co lor<xsl:value-of
select="transla te(normalize-space(Publisher ), ' ', '-')"/></xsl:attribute>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/