This is awful form, but I'm going to respond to my own answer
with a question. One of the things I played around with when
writing the message below was how the serialization handled
separation of the output sequences.
Am I correct in my understanding that the reason the stylesheet
below works, separating each item from the <xsl:sequence/> with
a single whitespace character, is due to
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#serdm
where a sequence of strings will be padded, but a sequence of
text nodes will not be? In other words, is that reference
above the reason that either
<xsl:sequence select="string(.)"/>
or
<xsl:sequence select="normalize-space(.)"/>
work, giving, 'text1 text2 text3', whereas
<xsl:sequence select="."/> <!-- selecting text() node -->
would result in 'text1text2text3' ?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()[parent::*[self::E1|self::E2]]">
<xsl:sequence select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
That would let you handle, for example, something like
<V><E1>text<E2>text2<baz>smorth</baz></E2>text3<flober>chum</flober></E1></V>
Jim
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