Re: [docbook-apps] Removing newlines between <para>s

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Ekaterina,
I'm not completely clear on what you need here.  In terms of DocBook 
XML, these two representations are semantically identical:

<para>Some text</para>
<para>Some text</para>

and

<para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para>

That is, white space between block elements like para is not considered 
significant, and will be ignored in any further processing to generate 
output.  So these two representations will produce identical output.

If your cleanup XSLT includes <xsl:output indent="yes"/>, then that is a 
global setting and is the reason why the two paras are on separate 
lines.  If you set indent="no", then those line breaks won't be added, 
but then line breaks won't be added anywhere.  Turning off the line 
breaks only within <entry> might be accomplished if you use 
<xsl:preserve-space> and <xsl:strip-space> in some combination, but I 
haven't tried it.

If instead you are asking that the content of the para elements be 
merged into a single para in the output, then that's a different thing.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/19/2016 7:48 AM, Shikareva, Ekaterina wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a task to combine a single DocBook XML file from several other
> source DocBook XML files. This is done with some Perl script. Next, I’m
> trying to prettify the result (also from inside my Perl script) using
> the following xslt stylesheet:
>
>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
>
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>
>   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> In this resulting XML, I get the following formatting:
>
>
>
>     <section>
>
>       <title>Title</title>
>
>       <informaltable>
>
>         <tgroup cols="2">
>
>           <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>
>
>           <tbody>
>
>             <row>
>
>               <entry>Some text</entry>
>
>               <entry>
>
>                 <para>Some text</para>
>
>                 <para>Some text</para>
>
>               </entry>
>
>             </row>
>
>           </tbody>
>
>         </tgroup>
>
>       </informaltable>
>
>     </section>
>
>
>
> But I need the <para>s inside the <entry> to stick together:
>
>
>
>     <section>
>
>       <title>Title</title>
>
>       <informaltable>
>
>         <tgroup cols="2">
>
>           <colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>
>
>           <tbody>
>
>             <row>
>
>               <entry>Some text</entry>
>
>               <entry>
>
>                 <para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para>
>
>               </entry>
>
>             </row>
>
>           </tbody>
>
>         </tgroup>
>
>       </informaltable>
>
>     </section>
>
>
>
> Even if these <para>s are on the same line in my source file, in the
> combined file they jump to different lines because of the formatting and
> indenting.
>
>
>
> What changes shall I introduce in my xslt stylesheet to solve this?
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Ekaterina Shikareva
>
> Senior Technical Writer
>
>
>
>
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