Ramkumar Menon's Blog

In case your XML elements contain multiple whitespaces within the text, or leading and trailing the text, you could use normalize-space() function to remove the leading and trailing whitespaces, as well as to combine all adjacent intermediary whitespaces into one single whitespace.

For e.g

Input

<input>   1sp 2sp  3sp   4sp     5sp     3sp   end</input>

XSLT

 <ns1:result>
   <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(/input)"/>
</ns1:result>

Result

<result>1sp 2sp 3sp 4sp 5sp 3sp end</result>