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2008/5/29 Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Andrew Welch wrote: > >> "the output is "foobar" as the adjacent text nodes "foo" and "bar" >> are merged by the outer value-of before it applies the seperator" > > The exact verse is in [XSLT20] 5.7.2 Constructing Simple Content > <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#constructing-simple-content>: > > 2. Adjacent text nodes in the sequence are merged into a > single text node. yeah... the important part is that it's step 2 and occurs before step 5 (where the separators are added) I wonder what the reason is for merging adjacent text nodes? Other than compacting the a tree a little, what purpose does it serve? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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