Table of contents

Abstract

Introduction

The basic concepts

Stylesheet organization

Root template

Match processing instruction nodes

Match text nodes

Match attributes

Match other nodes

Keepspace template

Using the stylesheet

The complete stylesheet

Removing XML whitespace in structured FrameMaker documents

An ongoing frustration with using structured FrameMaker to generate great PDF files from DITA or other XML files is that structured FrameMaker does not ignore whitespace, resulting in excess spaces in paragraphs and table cells and unnecessary space between paragraphs. These spaces are annoying and time consuming to remove. This paper describes an XSL transform that removes whitespace from XML documents. You can incorporate the transform into a FrameMaker structured application to remove whitespace automatically.

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