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normalize-space
XML XSL

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myFile.xslt"?>

<store>

  <book id="1">
    <title>XML</title>
    <author>Bill</author>
    <price>25.50</price>
  </book>

  <book id="2">
    <title>XSL</title>
    <author>Vijay</author>
    <price>75.60</price>
  </book>

  <book id="3">
    <title>HTML</title>
    <author>Kris</author>
    <price>50.40</price>
  </book>

</store>

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method ="text"/>

 <xsl:template match="//store/book">

    <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(normalize-space(.), ' ')" />

 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

OutPut:

Bill 25.50

Vijay 75.60

Kris 50.40