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From: dizzyhaze@-----.---
To: NULL
Date: 6/1/2005 3:59:00 AM

Problem solved.

My XQuery implementation was/is buggy. Saxon returns the correct result
if fed

fn:string(/root/elemt)

regards,
Diz.

dizzyhaze@g... wrote:
> Here is a sample of the kind of XML I'm working with:
>
> <root>
>   <elemt>Something is ro<lig>tt</lig>en in the state of
> <emph>Den</emph>mark</elemt>
> </root>
>
> I would like to be able to extract the contents of <elemt> as a string
> without the subelements and with the integrity of the words
> unaffected...for example:
>
> <result>
>   Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
> </result>
>
> I have tried various approaches with XQuery along the lines of...
>
> for $TheResult in (/root/elemt) return normalize-space($TheResult)
>
> ...but the best I've been able to do is this:
>
> <result>
>   Something is ro tt en in the state of Den mark
> </result>
>
> As you can see, spaces are being inserted in undesirable locations.
>
> Any ideas as to how I can make this work in XQuery?
> 
> thanks
> Diz.

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