Re: [xsl] Matching " within a variable as:item()*

[Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Martin and David for this explanation. Makes Sense!

Alex



On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's not possible to reconstruct any example from the posted fragments
> but one observation: these are not equivalent:
>
>
>              <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
>            <xsl:value-of select="'ZXZX'"/>
>            <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
>
>
>          <xsl:text>"ZXZX"</xsl:text>
>
>
> The first makes a sequence of three text nodes, with values ", ZXZX and "
>
> The second makes a single text node, with value "ZXZX"
>
>
> in some circumstances (for example if you copy these to an element in
> the result tree ) these things are equivalent, as text nodes are merged,
> but in other cases, for example if you directly extract nodes such as
> $VariableAsItem[1] then you will get different results.
>
> The variable name VariableAsItem is a bit misleading as it suggests a
> single item but it is typed as item()* allowing an arbitrary sequence.
>
> David
>
>



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