Re: check for whitespace value between nodes

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:58 -0500, a kusa wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there any way in XSLT to check if the value between two nodes is a
> whitespace?
> 
> I tried normalize-space(product/text()) !=' ' but that is not working.
> I want tocheck if the actual value between <product> </product> is a
> white space.

Whitespace is a tricky thing to get right. It's impossible to give you a
good answer without knowing more about what you are trying to do and
why, and the context, and without seeing your XSLT.

In some contexts, . eq ' ' would work, for example, and in others you
might want data(.) eq ' ' (both assuming XSLT 2) or even something like,
    matches(., '^\s+$')

Liam

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