Re: [xsl] Why processor or stylesheets puts strange output

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

TSchutzerWeissmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> <xsl:template match="text()[
>    string-length(translate(.,'&#x9;&#xA;&#xD;&#x20;',''))=0]"/>

This can be shortened to

  <xsl:template match="text()[translate(.,'&#x9;&#xA; ','')]"/>

because the boolean equivalent of the string returned by translate()
will be false if the string is empty, true otherwise. Also there will
never be a carriage return in a text node, just linefeeds.

The abomination that is XPath 2.0 will change this (string 'true' or
'1' will be true) so you'll need to put the string-length() back in
someday, but the "=0" is redundant and can be omitted.

   - Mike
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