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Mariusz Nowostawski wrote:
> 
> itself. If I have something like:
> 
> <tag1>
> arbitrary text
> </tag1>
> and call text() on the context element I am getting "arbitrary text" as
> expected. If I have:
> 
> <tag1>
> arbitrary text
> <innertag/>
> </tag1>
> 
> text() is still returning expected text. However, if I have:
> 
> <tag1>
> <innertag/>
> arbitrary text
> </tag1>
> 
> text() is returning either empty EOL or some spaces + EOL character. I
> tried child::text() and even going throuhg all children of tag1 via
> for-each but I could not anyhow get exptected "arbitrary text". What
> expression I should use (for Cocoon) to return a concatenation of all text
> nodes? To me child::text() or just text() should work in the last case as
> well - is it an implementation issue or I am missusing text() ?

text() is all the text-node children of the current node (i.e. tag1), so-

<xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>

-should work.  however, when a node-set is converted to a string, the
result is the string value of just the first node in the set, so-

<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>

-doesn't work when tag1 has more than one text child; actually, it wasn't
guaranteed to work in your first example, because the parser can split a
bit of text in XML into as many text nodes as it likes (because that may be
more efficient for long bits of text).  you could use-

<xsl:value-of select="."/>

-since the string value of an element node is the concatenation of all its
text-node descendants.

-- 

cheers

phil

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