> right?
Right. What did i say...I check sent mail....
ah so I got _both_ wrong.
<xsl:value-of select="foo"/> generates a text node with value "one two"
should, as you say, be "onetwo" (actually it was right when I wrote it,
I changed the input example before sending:-) but then my description of
the <xsl:value-of select="foo/text()"/>  was also wrong, as described in
another thread.  I give up.

<root>
 <foo>text</foo>
 <foo>text</foo>
</root>

This is because it's the string value of the <root> element - a
sequence of length one.

This is because it's the string value of each <foo> element - a
sequence of length two.

As there are two items in the sequence they are concatenated using the
optional separator (the default being " ").