A space in xml-document is stored in database as New line feed instead of n

Question

Hello,
I have got the following problem:
An xml-document is inserted by an xsql servlet into an object view. First this document is translated by an xsl file. Then an instead of trigger inserts the values into the right tables.
When a space is present (only one space no further string-value) in the xml-document then this space is inserted into the database as a new line feed.(chr(10))
When I add the following line to the tag
<bnr_name xml:space="preserve"> </bnr_name>
then the space is stored as a space. (chr(32))
What I want is that this space is inserted as a NULL- value.
Does anyone know a solution in xml or xsl? (Of course I can solve it on the database side by programming a function around it, but I want to solve it on the xml or xsl side)
Bye
jan-Paul Duister

Answer 1

Few questions which might help to understand the issue.
1. Is client's data is coming in more than 72 chars per each line? Then you can request client to send the data with max. 72 chars per line. Else dividing the string into 72 chars will loose the readability of text since logic can not be built to divide the text.
Start reading the text string starting from left for maximum 72 chars . If 72th character is non space then go backwards i.e. read 71, 70, 69... till last character should be a SPACE.
Eg. string is
'xxxxxxxxxxx...........This material is created for plant xyz. date of creation is 03.02.2009'.
x = string72(1) should be a SPACE else take x = string71(1)  and likewise.