andrew welch wrote:

> I think this is a good example:

> <root>
>   <foo>text</foo>
>   <foo>text</foo>
> </root>

> <xsl:value-of select="/root"/>

> produces "texttext" (with whitespace only nodes stripped)

  Do you mean "the normal behaviour is to strip the WS text nodes", or
"if we have <xsl:strip-space elements='root'/>" ?  The second one, I
guess ;-)

Yes, this is a good example. And maybe a good exam question :-p.

Here all the text nodes are merged into a single text node creating a
sequence of length 1, so no separator is output.  A bit of a trick
question really....