Script or XSLT to remove line break between XML elements

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October 23, 2020
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I have some XML in this format:

<CHAPTER>Chapter One</CHAPTER>
<CONTENT>This is what happened in Chapter 1.</CONTENT>
<CHAPTER>Chapter Two</CHAPTER>
<CONTENT>This is what happened in Chapter 2.</CONTENT>
</DOCUMENT></ROOT>

I have a pre-tagged template where the <CHAPTER> tag maps to a paragraph style with Keep Options, start paragraph=Next page (i.e., every new chapter should start on a new page). The <CONTENT> tag maps to a basic paragraph style, and <ROOT> and <DOCUMENT> are not mapped.

Notice there is a line break in the XML after <DOCUMENT>. After importing, the result is that page 1 appears blank (because of the line break) and Chapter One starts on page 2. If I go into the story editor and remove the line break so it looks like <DOCUMENT><CHAPTER>, it fixes the display so Chapter One starts on page 1.

Is there a way for me to automate the removal of the line break, either with XSLT or a script in InDesign? Unfortunately we can't change the original XML output, and I'm trying to avoid any manual fixes.

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BarlaeDC

Community Expert

HI,

Many thanks for sharing the link, I have been able to replicate and will see if I can work around the issue, but I think it might be worth logging a bug against InDesign as that is not how I would expect and XML import to behave with a return that is outside of the content that it should be placing.

log the issue here - https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Regards

Malcolm