The string-trim() function

Smartsite 7.2 - ...

The string-trim() extension function removes all leading and trailing white-space characters from the specified string.

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string exf:string-trim(arg1)

Parameters:

  • arg1: a node reference or string literal.

Example

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
  xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"  
  xmlns:exf="http://smartsite.nl/namespaces/xforms/1.0">
 <head>
  <title>Example</title>
  <xf:model>
   <xf:instance>
    <data xmlns="">     
    </data>
   </xf:instance>
  </xf:model>
 </head>
 <body>
  <xf:group ref="/data" appearance="full">
   <xf:label />
   <xf:output value="exf:string-trim('  input string  ')" />
  </xf:group>
 </body>
</html>

The result will be:

input string


Namespace

This function is available within the Smartsite XForms namespace (http://smartsite.nl/namespaces/xforms/1.0).