assuming your are not particularly pedantic about unicode characters that might 
look spacy-like ...
this will work

    fn:exists($elem/@attribute) and  fn: normalize-space( $elem/@attribute ) ne 
'' 

but it all depends on what you mean by 'has a value' 



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Misztur, Chris
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:01 PM
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Subject: [xquery-talk] Validating an attribute value

If I want to make sure that an attribute has a value should I check with 
empty() and functx:all-whitespace()?

-c



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