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RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: "'Thomas B. Passin'" <tpassin@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:36:07 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <001f01c23180$ebc275c0$fe193044@tbp1>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> Hmm, Saxon 5.4.1 gives 3, while Saxon 6.5.1 gives 1.  A few 
> quiet changes behind the scenes, I see.

5.4.1 is a long time ago (August 2000), and there have been 21 releases since then, so I can't cast my mind back to the particular change. But the changes at each release are pretty thoroughly documented: see http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/changes.html.

I'm surprised if it ever gave 3 when processing a SAXSource or StreamSource, though it gives 3 today when running on JDOM (a known bug). How was the input supplied in your case?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> [Michael Kay]
> 
> But if you change the question to ask "what is the value of 
> count(foo/text())", then the only possible answer is 1, and 
> any product that says otherwise is non-conformant.
> 
> MSXML3, when I last looked, was non-conformant in this 
> respect. (See XSLT Programmer's Reference, 2nd Edition, Wrox 
> Press, page 700).
> 
> 
> >
> > > Given the following XML in a DOM document
> > >
> > > <foo>
> > > bar
> > > <![CDATA[
> > > baz
> > > ]]>
> > > quux
> > > </foo>
> > >
> > > and the following XPath
> > >
> > > //text()
> > >
> > > what should be the resulting DOM nodes and why?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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