Hi David,
I'm glad I do learn useful stuff now and then and I probably never ran into the
issue as we don't put comments in our data. But I certainly agree that
programming fault tolerant is the smartest option. So from now on I will avoid
using text().
Robby
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From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:22 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Cc: Robby Pelssers
Subject: Re: [xsl] Can grouping here the solution ?
On 21/11/2011 18:10, Robby Pelssers wrote:
Ok Ken, thx for the advice. I actually never used to do so but at
some point in time I figured it would express more clearly the
intent. I guess I should just always assume this by default to safe
on typing.
actually using text() makes your code more fragile. If the input has any
comments for example:
<page>page <!-- was 2 now changed-->1</page>
page has string value "page 1" so will work as expected if selected with
an xpath of page but page/text() selects a sequence of two text nodes
with values "page " and "1" which will either do the wrong thing, or
generate an error, depending on how its used.
David
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