Yeah, you probably speaks about  normalize-space() function, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-normalize-space

Function: string normalize-space(string?)

The normalize-space function returns the argument string with whitespace normalized by stripping leading and trailing whitespace and replacing sequences of whitespace characters by a single space. Whitespace characters are the same as those allowed by the S production in XML. If the argument is omitted, it defaults to the context node converted to a string, in other words the string-value of the context node.

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Oleg Tkachenko,
Multiconn International, Israel 

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> Hello,
>    Does anyone know if there is a function such as trim() that can be
> applied on a text node, i.e., remove all leading and trailing white-space
> ('\t', '\n', '\r', ' ', '\f'), given the text node can contain non
> white-space characters.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Srini
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