Re: Stripping whitespace within a text node

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Subject: Re: Stripping whitespace within a text node
From: tcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Trevor Nash)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:57:00 GMT

>Is there any way to eliminate the whitespace in the middle of a text node? 
>For example, we want " a  b  c  " to give the output "abc".
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jacqueline
>
Copied almost verbatim from Mike Kay's book (any mistakes are sure to
be mine) use the XPath translate() function :-

    translate (., '&#20;&#x9;&#xA;&#xD;', '')

(assuming . is the text node you are interested in)

The hieroglyphs are space, tab, newline, carriage return.  In theory
you never see the carriage return, but I suppose it does no harm.

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Trevor Nash
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Stripping whitespace within a text node
- Jacqueline Bruner - Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
  - David Carlisle - Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
  - Trevor Nash - Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:02:46 -0400 (EDT) <=
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