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fn:normalize-space

Normalizes whitespace

Description

The fn:normalize-space function collapses whitespace in a string. Specifically, it performs three steps:

Replaces each carriage return (#xD), line feed (#xA), and tab (#x9) character with a single space (#x20)
Collapses all consecutive spaces into a single space
Removes all leading and trailing spaces

This description is © Copyright 2007, O'Reilly Media. It is excerpted from the book XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley, O'Reilly, 2007. For a complete explanation of this function, please refer to Appendix A of the book.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type
`$arg`	`xs:string?`
return value	`xs:string`

Examples

XSLT Example	Results
`normalize-space('query')`	`query`
`normalize-space(' query ')`	`query`
`normalize-space('xml query')`	`xml query`
`normalize-space('xml query')`	`xml query`
`normalize-space('xml query')`	`xml query`
`normalize-space('')`	zero-length string
`normalize-space(' ')`	zero-length string
`normalize-space(())`	zero-length string

History

Published On	Last Updated	Contributor(s)
2006-06-27	2007-02-26	W3C, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/

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