whitespaces using xsl:copy-of

[Stefan Pietschmann]

hi guys,   at the moment I'm writing a Transformer for Cocoon 2.0.4 and my problem is as follows:   There are certain tags not touched by the xslt a step earlier in the pipeline and I want to read them out. let's say the structure is:   <tagA>     <sub/> </tagA>   Now I simply use xsl:copy-of in my XSLT to copy tagA over in the output, so I am able to read it out in the following Transformer step. There I can search for tagA and make it a Node variable. I want to check whether the first childnode of it is called "sub" or "seb". When I just output all the childnodes of tagA with their names (getNodeName()) I get child1: "#text:     " child2: "sub: ...." child3: "#text:    "   well, it seems obvious that there are whitespaces before and after the sub tag, which occur when using copy-of with an indented (a.k.a pretty-printed) document.  If i change the original to be like <tagA><sub/></tagA> sub is the first and only childnode, otherwise not.   Now the question: Can I somehow get rid of whitespaces between tags when copying tagA over to the output in my xslt?   Thanx for your help and I hope you got what i meant :P   Stefan Pietschmann