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

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

On 12/01/2011 12:23, David Lee wrote:

> My extrapoliation from this is that only atomic and text nodes are
> concatenated into text nodes, and other node types where allowed are left as
> a sequence,
> as part of constructing XDM (not serializing it).


When the content of a document or element node is constructed from a 
sequence, you do not get the original sequence ever. atomic items are 
made into text nodes, and adjacent text nodes are concatenated, empty 
text nodes are dropped, attribute nodes either generate an error or are 
moved to the attributes of the element being constructed, and other 
nodes are _copied_ so have a new identity and possibly new in-scope 
namespaces, depending on settings.

David

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