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Re: Stripping whitespace within a text node
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Stripping whitespace within a text node
- From: tcn at melvaig dot co dot uk (Trevor Nash)
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:57:00 GMT
- Organization: Melvaig Software Engineering Limited
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>Is there any way to eliminate the whitespace in the middle of a text node?
>For example, we want " a b c " to give the output "abc".
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jacqueline
>
Copied almost verbatim from Mike Kay's book (any mistakes are sure to
be mine) use the XPath translate() function :-
translate (., '	

', '')
(assuming . is the text node you are interested in)
The hieroglyphs are space, tab, newline, carriage return. In theory
you never see the carriage return, but I suppose it does no harm.
Regards,
Trevor Nash
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