All entities have unwanted space before and after them

I will take a look at this, altough at face value this seems like an editor setup problem.

The problem is resulting from eol characters in the entity file. The solution is therefore to remove all such characters from the entity files so that the xml is one string without eol's.

I asked mdke to run this shell script of the files and test.

#! /bin/bash
files=`ls *.xml`
echo $files
for i in tr -d '\n \f' < $files ;done

Sorry copy paste errors, that script should be

#! /bin/bash
files=`ls *.xml`
echo $files
for i in $files; do tr -d '\n \f' < $files ;done

The xslt normalize-space() function might help. See a similar problem and its solution here: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/faq/faq-xslt.html

The changes can be implemented in the customization layer in trunk/ubuntu/libs/, but I don't know how to do it for yelp.

It looks like the best solution for this will be to include the xml directly in the gnome-menus-C.ent file... that way we can avoid having to customise the build each time. Thanks to mpt for identifying this solution. I've posted to devel-discuss for some scripting help in moving the material across.

It took about 5 minutes to get a script to move this material. Wow!

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