normalize-space Function

Returns the argument string with the white space stripped.

string normalize-space(string?)

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":

normalize-space("  abc  ")

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

See Also

XML Data Types Reference