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copied!<p><strong>Use</strong>:</p> <pre><code>//table//td//text()[normalize-space()] </code></pre> <p>This selects any non-all-whitespace text node that is a descendent of a <code>td</code> that is a descendent of a <code>table</code> element of the XML document.</p> <p><strong>XSLT - based verification</strong>:</p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:for-each select="//table//td//text()[normalize-space()]"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> ============= </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p><strong>When this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:</strong></p> <pre><code><table> <tr> <td> <div id="somediv1"> <span>blablabla</span> </div> </td> <td> <div id="somediv2"> <span>text2</span> </div> <div id="somediv3"> <span>text3</span> </div> <span>text4</span> </td> </tr> </table> </code></pre> <p><strong>the XPath expression is evaluated and all selected text nodes are copied to the output, using a visually distinctive delimiter string</strong>:</p> <pre><code>blablabla ============= text2 ============= text3 ============= text4 ============= </code></pre> <p><strong>Update</strong>:</p> <p>In case the source XML document is in a default namespace, the above XPath expression should be changed to account for this fact:</p> <pre><code>//x:table//x:td//text()[normalize-space() </code></pre> <p>where the prefix <code>"x"</code> is bound to the default namespace of the source XML document.</p> <p><strong>Here is a complete example</strong>, XSLT - based:</p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:for-each select="//x:table//x:td//text()[normalize-space()]"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> ============= </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p><strong>When this transformation is applied on the following XML document</strong> (the provided one, but put in a default (the XHTML) namespace:</p> <pre><code><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <tr> <td> <div id="somediv1"> <span>blablabla</span> </div> </td> <td> <div id="somediv2"> <span>text2</span> </div> <div id="somediv3"> <span>text3</span> </div> <span>text4</span> </td> </tr> </table> </code></pre> <p><strong>again the same correct result is produced</strong>:</p> <pre><code>blablabla ============= text2 ============= text3 ============= text4 ============= </code></pre>

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