Re: [xsl] Why processor or stylesheets puts strange output

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 12:19 PM 8/23/2002, Mike wrote:
> TSchutzerWeissmann@uk.imshealth.com wrote:
> > <xsl:template match="text()[
> >    string-length(translate(.,'&#x9;&#xA;&#xD;&#x20;',''))=0]"/>
>
> This can be shortened to
>
>   <xsl:template match="text()[translate(.,'&#x9;&#xA; ','')]"/>
And what of text()[normalize-space()] ?

> The abomination that is XPath 2.0 will change this (string 'true' or
> '1' will be true) so you'll need to put the string-length() back in
> someday
That is abominable, ugh.

Cheers,
Wendell


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