To do this he used an XSLT function called normalize-space, which is great if you’re using XSLT!

I was writing a service today which was using LINQ to XML to generate the XML for Flash, but that posed a problem, how do you deal with Flash wanting to do hard breaks on new line constants?

Easy, string.Replace to the rescue!

Here’s a handy little extension method you can drop into your code libraries:

public static string NormalizeSpace(this string s) {
	if(s == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("s");
	return s.Replace("\r\n", string.Empty)
		.Replace("\r", string.Empty)
		.Replace("\n", string.Empty);
}

Nice and easy (and unsurprisingly logical!).