xml_text does not trim "&nbsp"

[rentrop]

In my html-code i have &nbsp (i.e. non non-breaking space). If i try to get the the text via xml_text(..., trim=TRUE) it returns the non-breaking space instead of an empty string.
Is this a feature? IMHO the expected behavior would be to return an empty string...

Minimal-Example:

require(xml2)
space <- rawToChar(as.raw(c(0xc2, 0xa0)))
doc <- read_xml(paste0('<td style="text-align:left;">', space, '</td>'))
xml_text(doc, trim = TRUE) == "" # FALSE
charToRaw(xml_text(doc, trim = TRUE)) #[1] c2 a0

Workaround:
stringi::stri_trim_both(xml_text(doc, trim = TRUE)) or stringr::str_trim

[rentrop]

@jimhester thanks for getting on this so fast. Unfortunately this fix opens another error:

Take this example:

devtools::install_github("hadley/xml2") # Version 1.0.0.9002
require(xml2)
doc <- read_html('<td>31.12.2010&nbsp;<br>€
                 </td>')
text_nodes <- xml_find_all(doc, ".//text()[normalize-space()]")
xml_text(text_nodes, trim = TRUE) # "31.12.2010" ""

So xml_text now removes the €-sign.

The expected result would be:

stringi::stri_trim_both(text_nodes) # "31.12.2010" "€"

[jimhester]

Ok I refactored how this was being done, thanks for the reproducible example.

[rentrop]

Perfect, thanks