In the XDM model the content of the Test element is a single text node. XDM does not allow two adjacent text nodes.
There are certainly XPath implementations, especially those running against a DOM, that get this wrong. You seem to be running against an implementation that has "cdata-section" nodes, which do not exist in XDM.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
> On 8 Feb 2022, at 00:05, Roger L Costello <> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Consider this <Test> element which contains whitespace, a CDATA section, and then more whitespace:
>
> <Test>
> <![CDATA[blah]]>
> </Test>
>
> What is the content of the <Test> element? Is it:
>
> (a) A sequence of three strings: ("NL ", "blah", "NL")
>
> (b) A single string: "NL blahNL"
>
> I executed the following XPath expression to count the number of text nodes in the <Test> element:
>
> /Test/count(text())
>
> that returned:
>
> 1
>
> Then I executed this XPath expression to show the text() node in the <Test> element:
>
> /Test/text()
>
> that returned three items:
>
> "NL " /Test[1]/text()[1]
> "blah" /Test[1]/cdata-section()[1]
> "NL" /Test[1]/text()[2]
>
> Yikes!
>
> The XPath results are contradicting each other, right?
>
> I'm confused. What is the content of the <Test> element: a single string "NL blahNL" or a sequence of three strings ("NL ", "blah", "NL")
>
> /Roger
>
>
>
>
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