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RE: XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node

• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:59:10 -0500

At 2008-02-28 06:35 -0800, Shlomo Yona wrote:
>What is expected to be returned for /a/text() ?
>Is it "xz" or "xyz"?

Depends on whether you are using XSLT 1.0 or XSLT 2.0:

>From: Eran Balter [mailto:E.Balter@F...]
>...
>Given the following:
>
><a>x<b>y</b>z</a>

   XSLT 1.0 returns "x" because it returns the value of the first
            of the child text nodes addressed in document order

   XSLT 2.0 returns "xz" because it returns the value of all of
            the child text nodes addressed in document order.

Note the nuance between strings and text nodes ... addressing two 
strings would have injected the separator between them, where 
addressing two text nodes in your example does not trigger the use of 
the separator.

In both versions of XSLT the value of <a> is "xyz".

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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• References:
  • XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node
    • From: "Eran Balter" <E.Balter@F...>
  • RE: XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node
    • From: "Shlomo Yona" <S.Yona@F...>