Bug - Remove space character can not be removed from input field in IE

> Hi,
>
> It seems that there is a bug related to the string input field in Internet
> Explorer.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1 - add a space character to a string input field
> 2 - Remove the focus from the component
> 3 - Click in the component again
>
>
> Problem: It's not possible to remove the space character. But the component
> is not empty, since the xpath expression control-1='' results in false.
> Expected: The input field should show the space character, so that the user
> can remove it. It works fine in Firefox, but in IE it does not.
>
> The work around I found to solve it, was to use the xpath function called
> 'normalize-space'.
>
> There is a form attached to help reproducing the problem. sample.txt
> <http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/file/n4656159/sample.txt>
>
>
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> Hi Inanda,
>
> I have been able to reproduce this, and I added an issue track it:
>
> https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/682
>
> Hopefully we can fix this one very soon.
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:27 AM, inanda.menezes <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that there is a bug related to the string input field in Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1 - add a space character to a string input field
>> 2 - Remove the focus from the component
>> 3 - Click in the component again
>>
>>
>> Problem: It's not possible to remove the space character. But the component
>> is not empty, since the xpath expression control-1='' results in false.
>> Expected: The input field should show the space character, so that the user
>> can remove it. It works fine in Firefox, but in IE it does not.
>>
>> The work around I found to solve it, was to use the xpath function called
>> 'normalize-space'.
>>
>> There is a form attached to help reproducing the problem. sample.txt
>> <http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/file/n4656159/sample.txt>
>>
>>
>>
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