On 20 December 2010 23:17, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
wrote:
On 20/12/2010 23:05, Syd Bauman wrote:
b) those experts who spoke of the rare need for matching text()
either don't deal with data like mine -- TEI
It's not a matter if what experts may do, so much as a question of what they
see others doing on this list (and especially) on the xquery list.
All the uses you gave consisted of doing string manipulations within text
content, for that text() can be very reasonable (although you still need to
be careful about comments) but that isn't the common use you see, which is
using
<xsl:value-of select="element-name/text()"/>
rather than
<xsl:value-of select="element-name"/>
especially in a thread with "novice question" in the subject line, it's a
reasonable asumption that whatever the answer is, it doesn't need text().
Now you don't count as a novice and probably the originator of the original
thread isn't either, but still, that's what it says in the subject line....
This might be a common problem from people coming from XQuery... in
XSLT we get the string value of the element or attribute, in XQuery
you get the deep-copy, so there is the habit of specifying string()
everywhere (or text() in the past)
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
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