Re: [xsl] Can grouping here the solution ?

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/11/2011 18:10, Robby Pelssers wrote:
> Ok Ken, thx for the advice.  I actually never used to do so but at
> some point in time I figured it would express more clearly the
> intent. I guess I should just always assume this by default to safe
> on typing.




actually using text() makes your code more fragile. If the input has any 
comments for example:

<page>page <!-- was 2 now changed-->1</page>

page has string value "page 1" so will work as expected if selected with 
an xpath of page but page/text() selects a sequence of two text nodes 
with values "page " and "1" which will either do the wrong thing, or 
generate an error, depending on how its used.

David

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