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normalize-space does not properly handle text data





------- Additional Comments From mrainey@probusiness.com  2002-03-05 02:29 -------
I have observed some strange behavior with normalize-space() in 2.3.1 that does 
not occur with 2.2.0.  It may or not be related to this bug.  The problem is 
that longer strings have extra spaces erroneously removed -- effectively 
joining words.

Here is the sample XSLT fragment:

<xsl:text>statement = pConnection.prepareStatement("</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($statement/text)"/>
<xsl:text>");</xsl:text>

Here is the sample input data fragment:

<text>select OrderID, CustomerID, EmployeeID, OrderDate,
     RequiredDate, ShippedDate, Freight, ShipName, ShipAddress, ShipCity,
     ShipRegion, ShipPostalCode, ShipCountry
     from Orders where OrderID = ?</text>

Please note that the carriage returns and leading spaces are part of the test 
data.

Here is the text output:

statement = pConnection.prepareStatement("select OrderID, CustomerID, 
EmployeeID, OrderDate, RequiredDate, ShippedDate, Freight, ShipName, 
ShipAddress, ShipCity, ShipRegion, ShipPostalCode, ShipCountry from Orders 
whereOrderID = ?");

The extra white space removal causes the joining of the words "where" 
and "OrderID" towards the end of the string -- strangely enough white space in 
the remainder of the string is handled correctly.  I have seen this behavior 
with a number of strings that are approximately the same size.

Again, this behavior does not seem to occur with 2.2.0.