Jeni,

> It's only spaces in the *middle* of the string that get 
> collapsed down to a single string. So for example:
> 
>   "New<cr><space><space><cr><space><space>York"
> 
> would become:
> 
>   "New York"
> 

I remembered that after I sent my post, but before sending it, when I
actually tried it out on his sample, normalize-space() did not produce a
match and contains() did.  Guess that helped me not to remember!

Cheers,

Tom P

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