* KJ wrote in microsoft.public.xsl:
>I have an xsl variable in my XSLT as:
>
><xsl:variable name="levelName">
>     <xsl:text/>
>     <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="$levelNumber = 3">h3</xsl:when>
>      <xsl:when test="$levelNumber >= 4">h5</xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>       h<xsl:value-of select="$levelNumber+1"/>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:text/>
>    </xsl:variable>
>
>
>How can I keep the whitespace from being part of a variable's value?

You can enclose your text in <xsl:text> element like

  <xsl:text>h</xsl:text><xsl:value-of ...

or you can simply remove the white space from the document

  <xsl:otherwise>h<xsl:value-of ...

It would also be possible to post-process the variable using
the XPath normalize-space function, but that is not desirable.
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