Remove space between two string and node in XSLT - xslt

Question

I want to remove space between two string and node in XSLT. I am using XSLT 2.0
Input :
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234"><t/>AWS H <t/>(ever over)<t/></doc><refformat="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
Output should be :
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234"><t/>AWS H<t/>(ever over)<t/></doc><refformat="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
the space between AWS H and <t/> should be removed from output.

Answer 1

If you want to remove the trailing space of any text node that is followed by a <t /> node, you could do this....
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="text()[following-sibling::node()[1][self::t]]">
<xsl:value-of select="replace(., '\s+$', '')" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note, you could use normalize-space here, instead of replace, but this would remove leading spaces too, which may or may not be want you want.
Note, if you only wanted to target text nodes beginning with AWS you could adjust the template match like so:
<xsl:template match="text()[starts-with(., 'AWS')][following-sibling::node()[1][self::t]]">
See this in action at http://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/6r5Gh3W

Answer 2

Input
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<ajeet>aaaaa </ajeet>
<kumar> bbbbb</kumar>
</root>
xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<singh><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(//ajeet)"/></singh>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
output:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<singh>aaaaa</singh>

Answer 3

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//text()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>
Try this using normalize-space

Answer 4

See below code, space removal happen only between "text() node and <t>".:
Input XML:
<root>
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234">The <ii>pp</ii> the <t/>AWS H <t/>(ever over) <l>the </l><t/></doc><ref format="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234"><t/>AWS H <t/>(ever over)<t/></doc><ref format="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
</root>
XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="doc">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:for-each-group select="node()"
group-adjacent="exists(following-sibling::node()[1][self::t]) and self::text()">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Result:
<root>
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234">The <ii>pp</ii>the<t/>AWS H<t/>(ever over) <l>the </l><t/></doc><ref format="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
<p type="c"><doc ref="core" id="k12234"><t/>AWS H<t/>(ever over)<t/></doc><ref format="no" ref="core" rid="ck1123"/>00</p>
</root>