Re: [xsl] Use of separator

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

On 8/7/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> you didn't show your input so i'll have to guess,
>
> if the doc is
>
> <x>
>  <a>one<!-- here -->two</a>
>  <a>three</a>
>  <a>four</a>
> </x>
>
> and the current node is x then
>
> element()/text() will select four text nodes with values "one" "two"
>       "three" "four"
> so
>       <xsl:value-of select="element()/text()" separator=", "/>
> will generate one text node with value
> "one, two, three, four"
>
>
> * will select three element nodes, each with name a and with string values
> "onetwo" "three" "four" so
>
> <xsl:value-of select="*" separator=", "/>
> will generate one text node with string value
> "onetwo", "three", "four"
>
>
> > Now i wonder why the result of the first expression contains no
> > separator while the other one does. Any explanations?
> presumably it selected a sequence of length 1, but without seeing the
> input it's hard to say.

Isn't it that adjacent text nodes are being merged before the
separator is applied?