XSLT transformation to remove space within element

Question

I am a bit new to XSLT stuff. The problem is that I need to get rid of whitespaces within certain elements in my input XML. For example

Answer 1

Hope, this will help you.

<xsl:template match="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="fn:normalize-space()"/> <!-- fn is the prefix bound to xpath functions -->
</xsl:template>

Answer 2

What you like to do is an Identity transform.

Try something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
    <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>

</xsl:stylesheet>