[xsl] Novice Question - matching entire text children

["David Lee" <dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. ?

I know just enough to hurt myself by knowing that in various data models 
the CHARACTERS (aka text()) can be arbitrarily chunked but I dont know (or
know where to look) to answer the above definitatively 

Thanks for any suggestions  
 


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David A. Lee
dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.xmlsh.org




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David A. Lee
dlee@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.xmlsh.org