Re: Not-quite normalize-space()

As Michael has said all of these would be a simple call to replace() in
2.0, in 1,0 then if by "retain" you mean keep a single white space if
there is any white space:

a) strip off leading WS, retain trailing WS, and normalize the rest

<xsl:variable name="x" select="concat(.,'!@@@!')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(normalize-space($x),'!@@@!')"/>

b) retain leading WS, strip off trailing WS, normalize the rest

<xsl:variable name="x" select="concat('!@@@!',.)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(normalize-space($x),'!@@@!')"/>

c) retain leading and trailing WS, normalize the rest

<xsl:variable name="x" select="concat('!+++!.,'!@@@!')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-before(normalize-space($x),'!@@@!'),!+++!')"/>

David