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Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

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• Subject: Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:08:49 -0400
• References: <002801c2315a$e0178290$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

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

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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