XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
> > Forgot to mention that if the query is "text {.}" the result sequence 
> >  contains a single coalesced text node with a value of 
> > "helloworldnux".
>
> I don't recognize "text{.}". What is that? An XQuery expression that 
> creates a new Text node based on the value of the context node?

Right, an XQuery operator serving as a "text constructor".

> Suppose we used ./child::*[1]
>
> My expectation is that this would actually return all three original 
> text nodes, not just one, and not a new one.

Shirasu might have already answered your question.

Wolfgang.