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RE: [xsl] Using normalize-space to test for characters in text nodes

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Hi,


> > thus NO-BREAK SPACE is not whitespace.
>
> So to return the third node from the following:
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>   <node> </node>
>   <node>&#160;</node>
>   <node>test</node>
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> I'm going to use:
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> string(translate(., ' &#160;', ''))
>
> Any improvements, suggestions on that?  I can't think of any other
> whitespace (well, apparent whitespace) characters...

You can see the Unicode Character Database and find all the characters that
have the White_Space property
<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html#White_Space> to populate the
list.

Cheers,

Jarno

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