Re: [xml] XPath normalize-space

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:15:37PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> The XPath normalize-space() function concatenates whitespaces, amoungst
> other things. This is done by ignoring all whitespaces except the last.
> This means that if the string contains a newline, then this will be
> preserved.
>
> If I understand the XPath specification correctly [1], it says that
> the function should be "replacing sequences of whitespace characters
> by a single space". That means that a newline should be converted into
> a space (0x20).
>
> Fixing this is very easy, but I just wanted to verify that my
> interpretation is correct.

  Sounds right to me, go ahead !

Daniel

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