RE: Using normalize-space to test for characters in te

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Subject: RE: Using normalize-space to test for characters in text nodes
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:11:39 -0000

> It's interesting because afaict the usual methods to check if a string
> is empty would all fail in this case.
> 

They would also fail if the user decided that a="_" represented an empty
attribute. That's why, when people ask on this list how to test for an empty
node, we always ask them what they mean by "empty".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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