Problem with "preceding" and "following" axis steps

Hi,

I have a question regarding the use of "preceding" and "following". I am
trying to extract information from Formex documents.

I noticed that there is a difference between Saxon-JS and libxslt and I am
not sure if it's my XSLT or if it's a specific Saxon-JS behavior.

Here is a snippet from the source XML that I am processing:

<ITEM>
  <NP>
    <NO.P>(1)</NO.P>
    <TXT><QUOT.START CODE="2018" ID="QS0006" REF.END="QE0006"/>medical
device<QUOT.END CODE="2019" ID="QE0006" REF.START="QS0006"/> means any
instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, implant, reagent, material
or other article intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in
combination, for human beings for one or more of the following
specific medical purposes:</TXT>
    <P>
      <LIST TYPE="DASH">
        <ITEM>
          <P>diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, prediction, prognosis,
treatment or alleviation of disease,</P>
        </ITEM>
        <ITEM>
          <P>diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of, or
compensation for, an injury or disability,</P>
        </ITEM>
        <ITEM>
          <P>investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy
or of a physiological or pathological process or state,</P>
        </ITEM>
        <ITEM>
          <P>providing information by means of <HT TYPE="ITALIC">in
vitro</HT> examination of specimens derived from the human body,
including organ, blood and tissue donations,</P>
        </ITEM>
      </LIST>
    </P>
    <P>and which does not achieve its principal intended action by
pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, in or on the human
body, but which may be assisted in its function by such means.</P>
    <P>The following products shall also be deemed to be medical devices:</P>
    <P>
      <LIST TYPE="DASH">
        <ITEM>
          <P>devices for the control or support of conception;</P>
        </ITEM>
        <ITEM>
          <P>products specifically intended for the cleaning,
disinfection or sterilisation of devices as referred to in
Article&#xA0;1(4) and of those referred to in the first
paragraph&#xA0;of this point.</P>
        </ITEM>
      </LIST>
    </P>
  </NP></ITEM>


Here are the XSLT instructions I am using:

    <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:text>{</xsl:text>
      <xsl:apply-templates
select="//ARTICLE[STI.ART[contains(translate(text(),
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÄÖÜÉÈÊÀÁÂÒÓÔÙÚÛÇÅÏÕÑŒ',
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzäöüéèêàáâòóôùúûçåïõñœ'),'definitions')]]"
mode="DEFINITIONS" />
      <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="ARTICLE" mode="DEFINITIONS">
      <xsl:apply-templates select=".//LIST/ITEM/NP/TXT[QUOT.START]"
mode="DEFINITIONS"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="TXT" mode="DEFINITIONS">
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="text()[following::QUOT.START and
preceding::QUOT.END]"/>
      <xsl:text>": "</xsl:text>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
      <xsl:text>",</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>


My issue is with the statement "<xsl:value-of
select="text()[following::QUOT.START and preceding::QUOT.END]"/>"

libxslt only returns the word between QUOT.START and QUOT.END, in the
example above that would be "medical device". (my desired result)

Saxon-JS however returns the text of the entire TXT tag. (not my desired
result)

Is there an error in my XSLT or did I come across an
implementation-specific behavior of Saxon-JS? In case of the latter, what
would be the right way to extract only the piece between QUOT.START and
QUOT.END?

Thanks!

Till

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