>Element nodes have a default value of  #element 

... One of us is confused. It may be me...

In the XPath data model -- and in DTM, for that reason -- an element 
node's string value is a concatenation of all the text nodes contained 
within that element or its descendents.

(In the DOM, an element node has no string value -- if you want the 
contained text, you have to explicitly obtain it by scanning through or 
using a Range.)


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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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