ng:spaceConcat

The built-in function, ng:spaceConcat(), helps concatenate two strings with a space character automatically inserted between them.

Here is an example:

This XPath expression:

ng:spaceConcat('First name:', 'Jon')

outputs this string:

First name: Jon

Important:

If you are concatenating values from an XML file and one of the values is a number, you must first convert the number to a string.

The ng:spaceConcat function works with string data types only.

Example:

ng:spaceConcat('Page:', string(ng:page-number()))

outputs this string:

Page: 2

An alternative method to concatenate two outputs (without automatically inserting a space) is to use the XPath function concat.