[xquery-talk] Validating an attribute value

[Michael Kay]

If you want to check that an attribute exists and that its value is non-empty and not all whitespace, use

if (normalize-space(@att)) then...

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 14 Dec 2013, at 02:01, Misztur, Chris <CMisztur at macleanfogg.com> wrote:

> If I want to make sure that an attribute has a value should I check with empty() and functx:all-whitespace()?
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> -c
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