Re: Flatten a node set into a single string

Thank you, Martin. That makes sense.

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Subject: Re:  Flatten a node set into a single string

On 07.12.2018 15:16, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <title><?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3120?> 1914<?FM MARKER
> [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3121?>
>   -1918 <?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3123?>
> - World W<?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3122?> ar One</title>
>
> When I get this using xpath
>
> title/text()
>
> I get a sequence of text nodes. What I really want is a single string:
>
> 1914-1918 - World War One
>
> Do I need to loop through the text nodes and build up a single string?
> I am using XSLT 2.0.


Well, simply select the
   title
element. Its string value then is the concatenation of its text node
descendants. So
   <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
will do. Or in pure XPath
   string(title)