RE: NodeTest text()

text() returns all the text nodes on the relevant axis, but if you
select a set of nodes in the <xsl:value-of> instruction, it only outputs
the first one. I suspect that is what you have done. Try <xsl:copy-of>.

Michael Kay

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> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to use the text() nodetest to extract the text 
> only value of a string. Kay (2nd ed.) defines the function of 
> text() as "selects all text nodes on the relevant axis". So, 
> I would expect the text() content of the abbr element in:
> 
> <abbr>Will<expan>elmus</expan>s</abbr>
> 
> to be 'Wills'. (This is within the definition of a key and 
> also includes normalise-space and translate, to complicate 
> matters, but it should still all work.) The trouble is that 
> the output I get from this function is 'Will', i.e. only the 
> first text node, rather than all. Am I misunderstanding the 
> definition, misusing the nodetest, or is this a problem with Saxon?
> 
> Many thanks for any advice.
> 
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