Hello,
please excuse me for not giving a complete example of the source file.
Here is my second attempt ... I made a little testbed which consists
of one source file and two xslt stylesheets. Here is the source:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<wrapper>
<node1>Text1</node1>
<node2>Text2</node2>
<node3>Text3</node3>
</wrapper>
<wrapper>
<node1>Text1</node1>
<node2>Text2</node2>
<node3>Text3</node3>
</wrapper>
<wrapper>
<node1>Text1</node1>
<node2>Text2</node2>
<node3>Text3</node3>
</wrapper>
</root>
Stylesheet 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="wrapper">
<helloWorld>
<xsl:value-of select="element()/text()" separator=", "/>
</helloWorld>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output of Stylesheet 1:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<helloWorld>Text1Text2Text3</helloWorld>
<helloWorld>Text1Text2Text3</helloWorld>
<helloWorld>Text1Text2Text3</helloWorld>
Stylesheet 2:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="wrapper">
<helloWorld>
<xsl:value-of select="*" separator=", "/>
</helloWorld>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output of Stylesheet 2:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<helloWorld>Text1, Text2, Text3</helloWorld>
<helloWorld>Text1, Text2, Text3</helloWorld>
<helloWorld>Text1, Text2, Text3</helloWorld>
Although the output files are no valid xml due to the lack of a root
element they show the different use of the separator.
Regards,
Georg
2006/8/7, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>:
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.
David
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