Re: [xml-dev] text nodes of document in XDM

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 12/01/2011 02:49, David Lee wrote:
> So for example if I serialize to a stream (or file)
>
>      document {  1 , "hi" ,<foo/>  , 2 }
>
> then then deserialize that back into XDM values ... how "important" is it to
> reconstruct the sequence inside the document.

irrespective of serialisation, a document node can not have a sequence 
of atomic items as children.

That is a legal xquery expression, but the constructed value is a 
document node with three children not four:

text     "1 hi"
element  foo
text     "2"

So the only sequence that you need to be able to reconstruct is this, 
there can't be a requirement to reconstruct the initial expression from 
the result value.

David


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