Use concat() to add a non-space character (e.g. "#") fore and aft, then
apply normalize-space(), then strip off the leading and trailing "#" using
substring().

Or in XPath 2.0, just do replace($in, '\s+', ' ')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florent Georges [mailto:darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 December 2005 17:29
> To: XSL Mulberry list
> Subject:  'fn:normalize-space', but with 0 or 1
> heading/trailing space
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>   Hi
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>   I need a function similar to 'fn:normalize-space', but
> that not strip the heading and leading space if present
> (more precisely I want one space if one or more heading or
> leading whitespace is present).
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>   Do I need to code this entire function from scratch, or
> to use 'fn:normalize-space' and add myself a space if I
> detect any whitespace, or to... use a better solution?
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>   Regards,
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> --drkm
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