assuming your are not particularly pedantic about unicode characters that might
look spacy-like ...
this will work
fn:exists($elem/@attribute) and fn: normalize-space( $elem/@attribute ) ne
''
but it all depends on what you mean by 'has a value'
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Misztur, Chris
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Subject: [xquery-talk] Validating an attribute value
If I want to make sure that an attribute has a value should I check with
empty() and functx:all-whitespace()?
-c
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