Re: Collapsing run-on tag chains not working in saxon or xalan

> > > > > "Michael" == Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> writes:
    >>  XSLT 1.0 is 100% clear on this.
    >> 
    >> Microsoft are in violation of the standard.

    Michael> Sorry, but that's not 100% clear.

It is to me.

    Michael> in any particular way. There is specific mention in the
    Michael> XSLT 1.0 spec of the possibility of starting from a DOM,
    Michael> and the question of whether or not the DOM retains
    Michael> whitespace that was in the original XML source (if there
    Michael> was an original XML source) is completely outside the
    Michael> scope of the XSLT spec.

But if there WAS an original XML source, then you have NOT started
with a DOM. 
Starting with a DOM means building your DOM with calls like
createDocument and createNode (if I remember the names correctly).

English cannot bear the interpretation that starting with B means
starting with A and then creating B from it.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire