Re: Novice Question - matching entire text children

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Subject: Re: Novice Question - matching entire text children
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:16:30 +0100

David Lee wrote:

XSLT 2.0
I have a problem (probably my own misuse of XSLT) but I run into cases where

<xsl:template  match="NODE/text()">

</xsl:template>

can match more then once in a row.   I have not debugged this yet to
determine if something more complex is really the culprit (probably is),
and the text nodes matched seem to be whitespace  " \n\t .."
But before I really start digging maybe someone could tell me offhand what
the *expected* behaviour is ?

If I have an element lik
                 <ELEM>
   some

Text
Here</ELEM>


is
<xsl:template  match="NODE/text()">

*supposed* to be called once and only once with the entire text children or
is it possible that it is called multiple times with chunks of data as the
processer sees fit. ?

Well if you have an element named "ELEM" then a match="NODE/text()" does not apply at all. If you had match="ELEM/text()" then the template would apply to the single text child node of above "ELEM" element. But you could have <ELEM>some text <child>...</child> some more text <child>...</child> and some more text </ELEM> in that case there are three text child nodes of the ELEM element the template could be applied to.

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	Martin Honnen
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

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Novice Question - matching entire text children David Lee - 20 Dec 2010 13:09:45 -0000 David Carlisle - 20 Dec 2010 13:15:47 -0000 Martin Honnen - 20 Dec 2010 13:16:45 -0000 <= G. Ken Holman - 20 Dec 2010 13:21:51 -0000 Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex - 20 Dec 2010 13:35:16 -0000 Michael Kay - 20 Dec 2010 14:20:10 -0000 David Lee - 20 Dec 2010 14:30:50 -0000

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