Re: [xsl] Re: xsl-list Digest 28 May 2008 05:10:01 -0000 Issue 1511

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

2008/5/29 Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Equally adjacent text nodes are merged, so nested value-of's
>> are pointless:
>>
>> <xsl:value-of separator="xx">
>>   <xsl:value-of select="/root/node[1]"/>
>>   <xsl:value-of select="/root/node[2]"/> </xsl:value-of>
>>
>> ...here the output is "foobar" as "foo" and "bar" are merged
>> before the outer value-of gets to them.
>
> No, that's not quite true.
[snip]
> Adjacent text nodes are merged only by an operation that merges them, for
> example <xsl:element> or <xsl:value-of>.


Ahh, ok - so the outer value-of does the merging then applies the seperator.

So that should read:

"the output is "foobar" as the adjacent text nodes "foo" and "bar" are
merged by the outer value-of before it applies the seperator"


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