RE: [xml-dev] XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

The string value of an element node is the concatenation of all its descendant text nodes.

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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From: Eran Balter [mailto:E.Balter@F5.com]
Sent: 27 February 2008 17:05
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] XPath 2.0 data-model - dm:string-value of a node

Hi,

 

Given the following:

<a>x<b>y</b>z</a>

 

Is the string-value of Element-node “a” is “xz” or “xyz”, or generally: should the value of the children element-nodes be concatenated to the string-value?

 

Should Processing instructions/comments’s text be concatenated to the parent node?