select=normalize-space(translate(substring(.,5),\,/)) : normalize space « XSLT stylesheet « XML Tutorial






File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<greet>
 <greeting xml:lang="en">Welcome</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="fr">Bienvenue</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="es">Bienvenido</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="de">Willkommen</greeting>
</greet>


File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" />

  <xsl:template match="ms">
    <unix>
      /usr/mike
      <xsl:value-of
        select="normalize-space(translate(substring(.,5),'\','/'))" />
    </unix>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 Welcome
 Bienvenue
 Bienvenido
 Willkommen








5.34.normalize space
5.34.1.normalize the space
5.34.2.select=normalize-space(translate(substring(.,5),\,/))
5.34.3.normalize-space() returns the argument string with white space normalized by stripping leading and trailing whitespace and replacing sequences of whitespace characters by a single space.