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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:23:43+00:00

Consider simple XML document: <html><body> <table> <tr><td> Item 1</td></tr> <tr><td> Item 2</td></tr> </table> </body></html>

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Consider simple XML document:

<html><body>
<table>
<tr><td>   Item 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>  Item 2</td></tr>
</table>
</body></html>

Using XPath /html/body/table/tr/td/text() we will get 

["   Item 1", "  Item 2"].

Is it possible to trim white space, for example using normalize-space() function to get this?

["Item 1", "Item 2"]

normalize-space(/html/body/table/tr/td/text()) yields trimmed contents of only the first td tag ["Item 1"]

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using XPath
    “/html/body/table/tr/td/text()” we
    will get [” Item 1″, ” Item 2″].

    Is it possible to trim white space for
    example using normalize-space()
    function to get [“Item 1”, “Item 2”]?

    Not in XPath 1.0.

    In Xpath 2.0 this is simple:

    /html/body/table/tr/td/text()/normalize-space(.)

    In XPath 2.0 a location step of an XPath expression may be a function reference. This is used in the expression above to produce a sequence of xs:string items, each of which is the result of applying normalize-space() on the context node (any node selected by the subexpression that precedes the last location step).

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