Re: [xsl] xsl:sequence

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/8/06, Florent Georges <darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> andrew welch wrote:
>
> > I think this is a good example:
>
> > <root>
> >   <foo>text</foo>
> >   <foo>text</foo>
> > </root>
>
> > <xsl:value-of select="/root"/>
>
> > produces "texttext" (with whitespace only nodes stripped)
>
>   Do you mean "the normal behaviour is to strip the WS text nodes", or
> "if we have <xsl:strip-space elements='root'/>" ?  The second one, I
> guess ;-)

Yes, the latter, just to keep the output simple.

>   Yes, this is a good example.  And maybe a good exam question :-p.

It would, especially with the OPs original example:

<xsl:value-of select="//text()" separator=", "/>

Here all the text nodes are merged into a single text node creating a
sequence of length 1, so no separator is output.  A bit of a trick
question really....