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David Carlisle wrote: >By throwing away all the interior markup and using normalize-space >you get a well defined meaning for when two elements are "equal" and >also get a respectable looking output. > >If anyone from the WG is reading this they might like to explain how >(if:-) the xpath2 deep-equal function would (or wouldn't) help here. > >the following modifies things so that the <note> element geths through >to the output, but whether its notion of equality agrees with your own >I'm not sure... I don't think it really does test _equality_ in real-world xml-as-document cases, since without normalize-space a single whitespace (of any sort) in the <app> in between <rdg>s, or in them, causes two otherwise equal readings not to be merged into one. Yes, I can see that this could mean they aren't technically identical, but certainly for my purposes they would be equal. i.e.: ------ <p id="a2"><body wit="A B C">This is a <app><rdg wit="A">test</rdg> <rdg wit="B"><note>Test</note> testament </rdg> <rdg wit="C"><note>Test</note> testament </rdg> </app> only a test. </body> <body wit="D">This is a different body element</body> </p> ------ Should output: <p id="a2"> <body wit="A">This is a test only a test.</body> <body wit="B C">This is a <note>Test</note> testament only a test.</body> <body wit="D">This is a different body element</body> </p> ------ I know B and C are different since B has a newline and C some spaces, but it still strikes me that this should be possible? Would another approach be to expand all the <rdg>s in a first stylesheet, normalizing-space (somehow?), and getting something like: ------ <p id="a2"> <body wit="A">This is a test only a test.</body> <body wit="B C">This is a <note>Test</note> testament only a test.</body> <body wit="C">This is a <note>Test</note> testament only a test.</body> <body wit="D">This is a different body element</body> </p> ------ Before passing through another stylesheet which does the comparison/merge? Or am I barking (up the wrong tree)? -James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.uea.ac.uk/~q503 Cursus Project, School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, UK Tel:(01603)593-595 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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