RE: text::trim()

If you need to remove all whitespace, including single spaces, there's
always

translate($node,' ','') after using normalisze-space()


cheers

andrew


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wendell Piez
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:56 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  text::trim()


Srini,

There is normalize-space(), which does something like this: it removes
leading and trailing whitespace and converts sequences of whitespace
characters into single spaces. ("Whitespace" is defined as line feeds, tabs
and spaces. Carriage return characters are normalized as line feeds by an
XML parser, so don't appear.)

If you need something different you have to roll it by hand.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 01:55 PM 12/26/01, you wrote:
>Hello,
>    Does anyone know if there is a function such as trim() that can be
>applied on a text node, i.e., remove all leading and trailing white-space
>('\t', '\n', '\r', ' ', '\f'), given the text node can contain non
>white-space characters.


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