Hi Tom,
[ Yates, Danny]
For the first state (Alabama), "admissions/state/text()"
evaluates to something like:
Alabama<cr><space><space><cr><space><space>
Which is NOT the same as:
Alabama
You can solve this either by using normalize-space() or by
changing your <state> elements so that they don't use a mixed
content model (i.e. containing both text and other elements). e.g.:
Actually, even nomalize-space() does not quite do it because it
collapses all the whitespace down to one space, resulting in
Alabama<space>
normalize-space() strips leading and trailing space, so if the string
was:
"Alabama<cr><space><space><cr><space><space>"
then all that trailing space would be stripped and you'd get:
"Alabama"
It's only spaces in the *middle* of the string that get collapsed down
to a single string. So for example:
"New<cr><space><space><cr><space><space>York"
would become:
"New York"
Cheers,
Jeni
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