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Passing normalize-space on node value into the apply-templates

           Summary: Passing normalize-space on node value into the apply-
                    templates
           Product: XalanC
           Version: 1.3.x
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: XalanC
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ddgelfand@cifnet.com
                CC: ddgelfand@cifnet.com


Hello, 

I have an issue with Xalan 1.3, running on AIX system when I pass xml node with 
normalize-space call into apply-templates function.
(I fork the process from my "C" application and executes testXSLT driver.
>>testXSLT -in input.xml -xsl input.xsl
)

The issue appears ONLY if my xml value has double (or more) space following 
each other. For example, "My  Value" (with 2 spaces) will return the below 
error, but "My Value" (single space) will executes correctly.

Error: 
XSLException Type is: XObjectInvalidConversionException
Message is: Cannot convert a #STRING to a node set. (Unknown URI, line -1, 
column -1)

XML example:
....
<customer>
<subscriber>
  <subcode>My  Value</subcode>
</subscriber>
</customer>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

XSL Example:

<xsl:template match="subscriber">
SUBCODE=<xsl:apply-templates    select="normalize-space(subcode)"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="subcode">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(.,
        'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
        'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
</xsl:template>

In order to fix this issue,
I called normalize-space inside my apply-templates and it seems fixed my 
problem.

thank you,
-dg

ps: IMHO, when xslt parser calls normalize-space function, it stores result in 
the _local_ temp. variable which is passing into the second template.