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Re: [xsl] Unanticipated Results from text()

2007-02-26 10:14:53
Signature House wrote:

No matter how many line-breaks are in the XML, or where they're placed, in IE the 
"normalize-space(text())" picks up the "B2" text
as I expected. But FileMaker/Xalan/Xerces won't pick up the "B2" text if a line-break 
appears between the <BBB><CCC>. I just tried
the other white-space characters (blank and tab) and the same thing happened. No 
white-space between the <BBB><CCC>,
FM//Xalan/Xerces get the "B2", any white-space between <BBB><CCC>, FM//Xalan/Xerces 
doesn't get the "B2" text.

The problem is that you call e.g.
  normalize-space(text())
so you call normalize-space on a node set of all child text nodes. That way you normalize white space in the first text node in the node set as converting the node set to a string takes the string of the first node only. I think what you want instead is e.g.
  <xsl:for-each select="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
  </xsl:for-each>

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        Martin Honnen
        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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