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?
Almost but not quite. That text describes what happens if you serialize a
sequence of nodes, which never happens in XSLT - in XSLT you always
serialize a single document node. But the serializer spec is mimicking the
XSLT specification for what happens when you form the content of a document
or text node, which is described in
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#constructing-complex-content
The important difference is that the spaces are part of the result tree,
they are not simply added during serialization.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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