string Manipulation with XML file????

[qajussi]

I need to get rid of white space using DOM if that is possible. I was told to use DOM.
HOw do I do the string manipulation with DOM???


I know that XSLT has some string manipulation functions I could use.

But how do I parse the XML file and recreate XML file using XSLT??

I used ignore white space attribute and didn't work with my XML files..


Can someon guide me how I need to do this??
Example)

<to>John W. Smith, Tom J. Sanders, Drew J. Taylor</to>
I need to get rid of these white spaces between words.

I need either like this
<to>John W. Smith, Tom J. Sanders, Drew J.Taylor</to>
or
<to>John W. Smith</to>
<to>Tom J. Sanders</to>
<to>Drew J.Taylor</to>

 

[byam]

You need XLST processor, which take a XSL stylesheet and a XML file. Check out the XSLT tutorial at:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp

You may want to use XPath function normalize-space() to achieve what you want.