Re: [xml] About white spaces

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:33:37AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:10:10PM -0400, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:25:52PM +0100, chinlu chinawa wrote:
> > > <node>
> > >
> > >    some text, bla bla bla
> > >
> > > </node>
> > >
> > > I wonder if there's any function that allows me to
> > > retrieve a normalized string, thus:
> > >
> > > "some text, bla bla bla"
> >
> >   in general 'blanks' are significant in XML. There is a function
> > xmlSchemaStrip() in xmlschemastypes.c but it's private. You would have
> > to copy it.
>
> Isn't there a way to use the xpath function normalize-space() ?

  Probably but its interface would be XPath specific (XPath context, 
XPath args etc ...) and rather unpractical at a code level I guess

Daniel

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