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Re: [xsl] Returning a sequence of text nodes from xsl:apply-templates

2011-07-26 08:47:48
On 26 July 2011 14:35, Clint Redwood <clint(_at_)screwtape(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> 
wrote:
Hi! I may be fundamentally failing to understand how this works, but I've 
been trying to obtain a sequence result from xsl:apply-templates, where I am 
looking for each text result to be a member of the final sequence. There are 
no nodes or tags in the results.

I have

<xsl:variable name="resultVar" as="item() *">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodeList" />
</xsl:variable>

As I have said, my expectation was that I would get a sequence, one entry per 
node in $nodeList.

However when I use

<xsl:value-of select="$resultVar" separator="$separatorVar" />

I get only a single output of all the concatenated results, without a 
separator.

I'm using Saxon b 9.1 and xsl 2.0.

Any suggestions as to where my understanding has failed would be appreciated.

Trying this out locally, it seems like it's an adjacent text node
merging issue.... if you change the $resultVar type from item()* to
xs:string* then you get the output you are after.



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