Removing all \n\r characters from a node XSLT?

Question

wondered if you could help me please? I have node in xml that is as followed

$LOG: 08880xbpnd $
fhdsafidsfsd
df
sd
fsd
f

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the normalize-space() function (used in the answer of andynormancx) does more than deleting newlines.

It deletes all leading and trailing whitespace and it replaces any group of inner contigious whitespace with a single space character.

In many cases we want to deleteonly one type of a white-space character (as in the current case -- new lines (CR+LF is automatically normalized on reading by the XML parser to just LF).

The correct and safe way to do so is by using the standard XPath translate() function:

translate(., '
', '')

returns a string obtained from the string-value of the current node in which any newline character is deleted.

Here is an example:

When the above transformation is applied on this source XML document:

$LOG: 08880xbpnd $
"embedded    blanks    must    stay"
df
sd
fsd
f
sd
fsd

The result is on one line only, as required, and all embedded spaces are left intact:

$LOG: 08880xbpnd $"embedded    blanks    must    stay"dfsdfsdfsdfsd