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Subject: Re: Is Extra space in my XML causing a problem?
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 19:10:54 -0600 (MDT)
> I think You want normalize-space() section 4.2 of the xpath spec.  Is it
> similiar to java String trim() method, except that the number of spaces
> on each side of non whitespace data is reduced to 1 space, e.g.:
> 
> normalize-space( '     aaaa      ')
> 
> would return: ' aaaa '

No, it would return 'aaaa'. Leading and trailing whitespace is stripped
entirely. Other sequences of whitespace are reduced to 1 space. Examples:

'   aa   bb   ' becomes 'aa bb'.

'   aa
    bb
    cc' becomes 'aa bb cc'.

   - Mike
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