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functx:left-trim

Trims leading whitespace

Description

The functx:left-trim function removes all whitespace at the beginning of a string. Whitespace is defined as it is in XML, namely as the characters space, tab, carriage return and line feed. If $arg is the empty sequence, it returns a zero-length string.

Arguments and Return Type

XSLT Function Declaration

<xsl:function name="functx:left-trim" as="xs:string"
              xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com">
  <xsl:param name="arg" as="xs:string?"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="
   replace($arg,'^\s+','')
 "/>

</xsl:function>

Examples

functx:left-trim('   xyz')

xyz

functx:left-trim('   xyz    x')

xyz    x

functx:left-trim('xyz')

xyz

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