Re: XPath over DOM with CDATA section and text node sibling

Martin Honnen wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
>> No, this is a known bug. Things work fine if you use normal XSLT and 
>> the <?xml-stylesheet?> PI, but if you use DOM-XPath functions like 
>> document.evaluate adjacent text nodes are not merged. This turns out 
>> to be fairly difficult to fix without degrading performance a lot.
>>
>> Usually you can work around this by writing your expressions 
>> differently, though that's not always very easy. Exactly what are you 
>> trying to do?
> 
> I am just looking at how different XPath over DOM implementations handle 
> that mapping so as long as I am aware of how Mozilla handles this I am 
> fine. Thanks.

It is arguably somewhat undefined if DOM-XPath should consider adjacent 
text nodes as a single node, but IMHO it's the right thing to do. So I 
would say that mozilla has a bug here.

/ Jonas