Re: [xsl] Flatten a node set into a single string

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07.12.2018 15:16, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <title><?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3120?>
> 1914<?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3121?>
>   -1918 <?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3123?>
> - World W<?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3122?>
> ar One</title>
>
> When I get this using xpath
>
> title/text()
>
> I get a sequence of text nodes. What I really want is a single string:
>
> 1914-1918 - World War One
>
> Do I need to loop through the text nodes and build up a single string? I am
> using XSLT 2.0. 


Well, simply select the
  title
element. Its string value then is the concatenation of its text node 
descendants. So
  <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
will do. Or in pure XPath
  string(title)