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Re: Determine if an element with descents has complete

Subject: Re: Determine if an element with descents has complete empty text content
From: "Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 12:18:27 -0000
Re:  Determine if an element with descents has complete
On 02.10.2016 14:16, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've inherited some code that has this type of check to determine if an
element with arbitrary possible subelements has completely empty text
content:

normalize-space(string-join($context//text(), '')) != ''

In XSLT 2 I'm pretty sure there's a simpler and/or more efficient way to
do this.


Is there a better way to do this and if so, what is it?

Wouldn't


normalize-space($context) != ''

suffice and do the same?

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