Re: trying to drop leading/trailing WS text nodes from

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, David Carlisle wrote:

> The solution in the quoted  archive is a little more complicated than
> needed as you don't need to test
> starts-with($astr,'
') or
> starts-with($astr,'
')">
> as there won't be any #xD or #xA#xD pairs as the XML parser normalises
> all line endings to #xA before XSLT starts.

but the code you're referring to is for removing *leading* linefeeds
from the left, so that normalization won't have any effect, will it?
the code seems to be considering the possibility of mixed spaces/
tabs/linefeeds/carriage returns, and the normalization you're talking
about is only for the end of lines, no?

rday


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