Hello, I want to mail some documentation about available updates to root ;-) and hope that this makes this mail less off-topic here *g* - I need a bit help from XML/XSLT experts which I expect to be in the doc team ;-) In short: I have written a xsl file that filters the output of zypp-checkpatches-wrapper to send an update notification mail to root. It basically works, however I have some problems with the whitespace. Current output: --------------------------------------------------------------------- # xsltproc patch2mail.xsl zypp.xml *** ERROR *** Some error during calculation happened *** ERROR *** Another error Update sources: ftp.gwdg.de (http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.1) irgendwo (http://ftp.irgendwo.de) === java-1_5_0-sun - Patch 1438-0 (security) === SUN Java packages prior 1.5.0 update 7 allow DOS. Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5.0_6 and earlier, JDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier, and SDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by using the Font.createFont function to create temporary files of arbitrary size in the %temp% directory (CVE-2006-2426). === java-1_5_0-sun - Patch 1438-0 (security) === SUN Java packages prior 1.5.0 update 7 allow DOS. Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5.0_6 and earlier, JDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier, and SDK 1.5.0_6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by using the Font.createFont function to create temporary files of arbitrary size in the %temp% directory (CVE-2006-2426). Total updates: 2 (2 security) __TOTAL__22__ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The fact that the same patch is listed twice is caused by my test file (zypp.xml, attached) - don't worry about this ;-) Also don't worry about the __TOTAL__ line - this is easier to parse by my script. I'd like to have - no empty at the very beginning - "*** ERROR ***", "Update sources" and "=== ... ===" without leading whitespace - an empty line after the patch summary - less empty lines before "Total updates" Can someone help me with these issues? The xslt and the script calling it are attached to this mail, also the test data (zypp.xml) I used. Regards, Christian Boltz, searching for a good sig ;-) -- xslt, was? Wir kombinieren das Paradigma von awk mit der sprachlichen Eleganz von Cobol und den programmiertechnischen Verrenkungen von funktionalen Sprachen unter sorgfältiger Umgehung aller möglichen Vorteile. [Kristian Köhntopp]