Re: [xsl] check for whitespace value between nodes

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/08/2010 18:58, a kusa wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any way in XSLT to check if the value between two nodes is a
> whitespace?
>
> I tried normalize-space(product/text()) !=' ' but that is not working.
> I want tocheck if the actual value between<product>  </product>  is a
> white space.
>
>
>    
That space isn't between two nodes - it's between a begin tag and its 
corresponding end tag, and it is the child text node of the element 
represented by those tags.

If you want to test for a single space character, the test is

product = ' '

(where there's a single space between those apostrophes)

If you want to test for one or more whitespace characters, where 
whitespace characters include tab, CR, and NL, you could use 
matches(product, '\s+').

Michael Kay
Saxonica