When you say select="a", do you expect to select a single "a" element, or
multiple elements?
In XSLT 1.0, if there are multiple elements, xsl:value-of will give you the
value of the first.
In XSLT 2.0, if there are multiple elements, xsl:value-of will give you all
of them, with the chosen separator between the values. But if there are
multiple elements, then normalize-space() (or normalize-unicode()) will
fail, because those functions expect to operate on a single string.
If you want to replicate the XSLT 1.0 behaviour, use a[1] to select the
first a element and discard the rest. But then you don't need a separator.
So the question is, what are you trying to achieve?
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: jacques FAUQUEX [mailto:jacques(_at_)internet(_dot_)com(_dot_)uy]
Sent: 06 July 2006 14:23
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] xsl2 saxon8B stripping off unwanted separation
characters
I have a problem normalizing strings in xslt2 with saxon 8B.
Here is an example
XML <a
href="http://www.ac-versailles.fr/etabliss/michelet-vanves";
target="_blank"> Lycée
Michelet</a>
XSL
<xsl:element name="lycée">
<xsl:attribute name="nom">
<xsl:value-of separator=" " select="a"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:value-of select="lycée"/>
RESULT
<lycée nom=" Lycée
 Michelet">
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If a add a normalize-space function within the select,
<xsl:value-of separator=" "
select="normalize-space (a)"/>
XALAN y Saxon 6.5.5 output what I want
<lycée nom="Lycée Michelet">
On the contrary, Saxon8B outputs a static error :
A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the
first argument of normalize-unicode()
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#ERRXPTY0004
What's happening and how is it posible to normalize strings
with saxon 8B ?
Thanks
Jacques Fauquex
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