Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xsl-list Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xsl] Use of data() function [Thread Next] RE: [xsl] Use of data() functionTo: Date: 3/5/2008 10:32:00 AM > ...which is a bit odd to me at the moment. It seems a bit of > an artificial restriction. > The basis for the distinction is the theory that with mixed content, it makes sense to treat the markup as mere decoration of the text, whereas with element-only content, concatenating the children is a meaningless operation. In both cases I think the assumption is probably correct 95% of the time, and in the 5% of cases where it's wrong, the rule doesn't do much harm. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ | ||||||
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