[oXygen-user] Xpath and Saxon return tabs as text

[Wendell Piez]

George,

At 11:33 AM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks Wendell for the useful feedback!

Always happy to help. :-)

>I would go for not implementing that as an option in oXygen taking 
>into account the simple expression that gets the same result.
>Philipp, do you think that you need that as an oXygen option or 
>using the //text()[normalize-space()] expression is ok for you?
>
>To match better the relevant text nodes you may try something like 
>below, matching on the text nodes that although contain only 
>whitespaces have siblings that contain some non whitespace text:
>
>//text()[normalize-space() or 
>preceding-sibling::text()[normalize-space()] or 
>following-sibling::text()[normalize-space()]]

Or likewise:

//text()[../text()[normalize-space()]]

Note that even this isn't the same as getting only the text appearing 
where a schema says it's permitted (that is, only "significant" 
whitespace along with non-whitespace text). But it's frequently good enough.

Cheers,
Wendell


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