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4/8/2010

Returns the argument string with the white space stripped.

Syntax 

		
string normalize-space(
string)

Parameters

string

A string.

Return Value

The argument string with the white space removed.

Remarks

White space is normalized by stripping leading and trailing white space and replacing sequences of white space characters with a single space. If the argument is omitted, the string-value of the context node is normalized and returned.

The following function call returns "abc".

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normalize-space("  abc  ")

If an argument is not of type string,it is first converted to a string and then evaluated.

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