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

• From: "Shlomo Yona" <S.Yona@F...>
• To: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>,"Eran Balter" <E.Balter@F...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:35:56 -0800

Hello,

What is expected to be returned for /a/text() ?
Is it "xz" or "xyz"?

Thanks.

Shlomo

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...]
Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 9:51 PM
To: Eran Balter; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE: XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node

The string value of an element node is the concatenation of all its
descendant text nodes.

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


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From: Eran Balter [mailto:E.Balter@F...]
Sent: 27 February 2008 17:05
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node



Hi,



Given the following:

<a>x<b>y</b>z</a>



Is the string-value of Element-node "a" is "xz" or "xyz", or generally:
should the value of the children element-nodes be concatenated to the
string-value?



Should Processing instructions/comments's text be concatenated to the parent
node?

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