Trim / Remove spaces in Xpath?

If you are wondering how you can trim the spaces in your xpath, this is how:

The normalize-space function strips leading and trailing white-space from a string, replaces sequences of white-space characters by a single space, and returns the resulting string.

Example : Which one is better?

//td[starts-with(normalize-space(),'Text to Trim')]

//td[starts-with(normalize-space(text()),'Text to Trim')]

The second option is better as it targets at the specific nodes

More string functions in XPATH:

Functions Description starts-with(string1, string2) Returns true if the first string starts with the second string. contains(string1, string2) Returns true if the first string contains the second string. substring(stringoffsetlength) Returns a section of the string. The section starts at offset (which is a number), and is as long as the value provided at length. substring-before(string1, string2) Returns the part of string1 up until the first occurence of string2. substring-after(string1, string2) Returns the part of string1 after the first occurence of string2. string-length(string) Returns the length of string (i.e. the number of characters). normalize-space(string) Trims the leading and trailing space from string. Also replaces consecutive occurrences of white space with a single space. translate(string1, string2, string3) Returns string1 after any matching characters in string2 have been replaced by the characters in string3. concat(string1, string2, ...) Concatenates all strings (i.e. joins them together). format-number(number1, string1,string2) Returns a formatted string version of number1 after applying string1 as a format string. string2 is an optional locale string.