Transformer Whitespace problem

[Gerry Kaplan]

In my form definition, I have added a macro as follows:

<jx:macro name="form-widget-value"
targetNamespace="http://apache.org/cocoon/forms/1.0#template";>
   <jx:parameter name="id"/>
   <span>${cformsHelper.getWidget(widget,id).getValue()}</span>
</jx:macro>

The JX generator properly executes the macro, however LOTS of whitespace is
inserted. For example, if I called it twice in a row as follows:

<ft:form-widget-value id="city"/>, <ft:form-widget-value id="state"/>

It will expand to:
<span>Boston</span>      ,       <span>MA</span>

Which displays as:

Boston  ,  MA   {notice the extra space before the comma}

How can I tell Cocoon (or the generator) to remove unnecessary whitespace?
I've tried with and without the <SPAN> tags.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Gerry

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