XSLT: Remove excess whitespace characters preserving nodes

Question

So my problem is this. I have a transform document which is used in many places, and generically handles a lot of small formatting transforms. In one specific case, I need t

Answer 1

When you use normalize-space then only the text-value of your fragment is used and thus sub-nodes are stripped. You'd have to put the normalize-space into templates for the sub-nodes as well (those that are applied by your