Re: [Exist-open] Fwd: Fwd: xquery remove leading adn trailing whitespace

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

You dont have a trailing and leading space, you just think you do,
your encoded string starts and ends with a double-quote i.e. %22, so
there are no leading and trailing spaces.

On 25 August 2011 23:41, Nate Marks <np...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I'm using this.  a kind of random assortment of spaces and tabs:
>
> http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/orbk-tools/make-id.xql?input=%22%20%20sdfgsfdg%20sfgs%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ttetrertv%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%22
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> From: Adam Retter <ad...@ex...>
> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exist-open] Fwd: xquery remove leading adn trailing whitespace
> To: Nate Marks <np...@gm...>
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>
> Whats the string you are using for testing?
>
> On 25 August 2011 22:58, Nate Marks <np...@gm...> wrote:
>> Thanks for the fast response!  This -seems- like to should do exactly what
>> I
>> want, but in the test below it still seems to keep a single space before
>> and
>> a single space after.  Am I nuts?:)
>>
>> xquery version "1.0";
>> declare namespace exist = "http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist";
>> declare namespace system="http://exist-db.org/xquery/system";
>> declare namespace request="http://exist-db.org/xquery/request";
>> declare option exist:serialize "method=xml media-type=text/xml
>> indent=yes";
>>
>> let $input := request:get-parameter('input', '')
>> let $trimmed := normalize-space($input)
>>
>>
>>
>> return
>> <results>
>>    <input>{$input }</input>
>>    <replace-result>{$trimmed}</replace-result>
>> </results>
>>
>>
>>
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>> From: Robert Han <rob...@da...>
>> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:44 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Exist-open] xquery remove leading adn trailing whitespace
>> To: Nate Marks <np...@gm...>
>>
>>
>> Have you tried using normalize-space()?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Nate Marks <np...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've googled a bunch of examples with regular expressions in xquery and
>>> can't seem to get any of them to work. ultimately, I'm trying to take a
>>> string, get rid of all the leading and trailing whitespace, shrink down
>>> all
>>> the remaining whitespace to a single space, then replace the spaces with
>>> hyphens so I always get a value like:
>>> aaa-bbbb-cvccc
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated:)
>>>
>>> xquery version "1.0";
>>> declare namespace exist = "http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist";
>>> declare namespace system="http://exist-db.org/xquery/system";
>>> declare namespace request="http://exist-db.org/xquery/request";
>>> declare option exist:serialize "method=xml media-type=text/xml
>>> indent=yes";
>>>
>>> let $input := request:get-parameter('input', '')
>>> let $collapsed := xs:token($input)
>>> let $trimmed := replace(replace($collapsed,'\s+$',''),'^\s+','')
>>>
>>> let $twotrimmed := replace(replace($trimmed,'\s+$',''),'^\s+','')
>>> let $hyphenated := replace($twotrimmed , ' ', '-')
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> return
>>> <results>
>>>    <input>{$input }</input>
>>>    <replace-result>{$trimmed}</replace-result>
>>> </results>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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