Thanks Wendell for the useful feedback!
I would go for not implementing that as an option in oXygen taking into
account the simple expression that gets the same result.
Philipp, do you think that you need that as an oXygen option or using
the //text()[normalize-space()] expression is ok for you?
To match better the relevant text nodes you may try something like
below, matching on the text nodes that although contain only whitespaces
have siblings that contain some non whitespace text:
//text()[normalize-space() or
preceding-sibling::text()[normalize-space()] or
following-sibling::text()[normalize-space()]]
Best Regards,
George
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Wendell Piez wrote:
Hi again,
At 05:48 AM 9/5/2008, you wrote:
Until we add the option for stripping whitespace-only nodes in the
evaluation of expressions on the XPath toolbar you can use the
following XPath 2.0 expression which does the stripping:
//text()[string-length(translate(., ' 	
', '')) > 0]
Or (more succinctly, to similar effect):
//text()[normalize-space()]
The problem being that either of these expressions will fail to retrieve
all the text here
<p>Here's a <b>big</b> <i>bad</i> paragraph.</p>
since the text node between the 'b' and 'i' elements has only whitespace.
Cheers,
Wendell
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