I'm not entirely sure I understand text()[normalize-space()]
there was a time I'd have let that comment pass and assume the xsl-list
auto-documentation daemon would take over, but...
You want the first non-white space character of the first text
node that has a non white space character.
So reading the english from the end, and writing the xpath from the
middle
that has a non white space character
[normalize-space()]
(this works as normalize-space() is normalize-space(.) which is a non
empty string if there is a non white character, and when a string is
used as a predicate it counts as true if non empty.)
first text node that ...
text()[normalize-space()][1] <!-- we'll drop the one later -->
non-white space character of ..
normalize-space(text()[normalize-space()]) <!-- drop the one here due to
xpath 1's first node
rule for string functions -->
You want the first
substring(normalize-space(text()[normalize-space()]),1,1)
David
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