RE: [xsl] Matching text nodes with only whitespaces

Subject: RE: [xsl] Matching text nodes with only whitespaces
From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:45:52 -0000
> I need to write a template matching text nodes, which just
> consit of multiple whitespaces (tabs in most cases). I cant't
> use normalize-space since I need leading and tailing
> whitespaces in some cases. I suppose matches() would help me
> here, but I actually don't know how to formulate the regular
> expression for that. Can you help me here? Thanks!

How about:

<xsl:template match="text()[not(normalize-space(.))]">
 ...
</xsl..

I'm not sure I understand why you can't use normalize-space()?

cheers
andrew

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