Dear Dimitre,
At 04:33 PM 8/20/2010, you wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Wendell Piez
<wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
> Dear Dimitre,
>
> At 12:00 PM 8/20/2010, you wrote:
>>
>> In fact the expression I proposed also covers your "first definition".
>
> Of course -- I'm sorry if I wasn't clear that a single space
character would
> pass your test. But it doesn't do so exclusively. If "a white space" is
> meant to designate *only* a single character, the test (as you know) has to
> be tighter. And either way, we also get to worry about what that character
> can be. Space, tab, non-breaking space, zero-width space ...
The question said "white space". Not "white space character".
I read "a white space". The use of the indefinite article might
suggest a singular "space".
Also in your message you were describing the solution to your "first case" as:
"For the first definition, one might want
translate(product/text(),'
	',' ')=' ' "
So, it seems that your "first case" defines whitespace as containing
one or more newline and tab characters. There is nothing in your
proposed XPath expression that restricts the test for "*only* a single
character".
I think the other side of the equality operation does that, doesn't it? :-)
Cheers,
Wendell
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