In XPath we can trim or remove spaces, it doesn't have trim
function in XPath 1.0 but can use normalize-space(), it just
doesn't trim it doesn't it more thing that as well following is an
example:
normalize-space()
//removing spaces from beginning and end
NodeIter = nav.Select("/Products/Product/name[normalize-space(' Item1 ') ='Item1']");
//removing only trailing spaces
NodeIter = nav.Select("/Products/Product/name[normalize-space(' Item 1 ') ='Item 1']");
//removing more than one spaces and leave just one space between characters or words
NodeIter = nav.Select("/Products/Product/name[normalize-space(' Item 1 2 ') ='Item 1 2']");
normalize-space() does
more than just trimming spaces.
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