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[Dare Obasanjo] > 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? I can think of two answers but they both have problems. > I tried this out using the Big Three xslt processors, and depending on the stylesheet, I got a big difference for msxml3 vs. (Saxon and Xalan). Hard to believe at this late date. Here is the stylesheet that gives differences: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select='//text()'/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Results: ===> msxml3: bar ===> Saxon and Xalan (and Sablotron and XT): bar baz quux Putting the "//text()" up in the select attribute of the template works the same in all three (it returns all three strings). This is a bit unnerving - what else does msxml3 disagree with the others on that could lead to a really big difference? Cheers, Tom P
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