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RE: combining XML documents

• To: "'Martin Probst'" <martin@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: combining XML documents
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:13:35 -0000
• In-reply-to: <1132939460.8054.6.camel@l...>
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> 
> BTW, what is actually the proposed standard way of doing that (node to
> string)? You could write "data($title)", "$title//text()",
> "string($title)". 

data() gives you the typed value, string() gives you the string value: for a
node with simple content in a schema-less document, the answer is the same.

text() is bad practice, because it's likely to give wrong answers or fail
the first time someone puts a comment in the source document.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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