Re: [xsl] Flatten a node set into a single string

On 07.12.2018 15:16, Rick Quatro rick(_at_)rickquatro(_dot_)com wrote:

> <title><?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3120?>
> 1914<?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3121?>
>   -1918 <?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3123?>
> - World W<?FM MARKER [Cross-Ref] _bookmark3122?>
> ar One</title>
>
> When I get this using xpath
>
> title/text()
>
> I get a sequence of text nodes. What I really want is a single string:
>
> 1914-1918 - World War One
>
> Do I need to loop through the text nodes and build up a single string? I am
> using XSLT 2.0. 

Well, simply select the
  title
element. Its string value then is the concatenation of its text node 
descendants. So
  <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
will do. Or in pure XPath
  string(title)
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