I've inherited some code that has this type of check to determine if an
element with arbitrary possible subelements has completely empty text
content:

normalize-space(string-join($context//text(), '')) != ''

In XSLT 2 I'm pretty sure there's a simpler and/or more efficient way to
do this. 


Is there a better way to do this and if so, what is it?

Thanks,

Eliot
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