Return its argument with normalized whitespace.

Related Syntax Constructs

The following construct(s) refer to this construct:

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Syntax

fn:normalize-space(string? $string) => string?

Description

This function returns the argument with normalized whitespace. Normalizing whitespace includes stripping leading and trailing whitespace and replace more than one whitespace character with a single whitespace character.

Argument

$string	string value

Example

• Return the normalized form of a string with lots of spaces:

  normalize-space("   lots of  spaces   everywhere   ...    ")

  This returns the string "lots of spaces everywhere ...".