is there any operation such as trim in xslt?

Question

i wrote a xslt code which converts a xml file to a html file which contains lot of tables, one of the column contains messages(very long messages), but that line starts with

Answer 1

Unfortunately you don't say what you expect your "trim()" function to do. But from your description of the requirement, I would guess that normalize-space() is close enough:

starts-with(normalize-space(message), 'Verification passed'))

The XPath normalize-space() function differs from the Java trim() method in that (a) it replaces internal sequences of whitespace characters by a single space, and (b) it has a slightly different definition of whitespace.