[Serial] 2 Sequence Normalization

Section 2 defines the normalisation step three ways (in English, in
XSLT and in XQuery) unfortunately I don't think they are equivalent.
I think the intention is to get the effect of the xslt/xquery code
but I don't think the prose does this. The prose could be corrected but
defining things in "equivalent" ways, even if two of them are in a
non-normative note is dangerous, and it might be better _just_ to give
an unambiguous definition (in XSLT and/or Xquery) and drop the prose
description. 


The problem with the existing text definition is I believe with
concatenation of text nodes.

 <xsl:result-document>
  <xsl:copy-of select="$seq"/>
</xsl:result-document>


would merge any adjacent text nodes into a single text node with the
concatenated string and drop any empty text nodes (as they would acquire
a parent after copying. adjacent text nodes may arise either because
they were in adjacent positions in the original sequence, or may "become
adjacent" as a result of taking the children of document nodes, or
converting atomic strings to text nodes (steps 4 and 5).

So if you want to keep the existing text I think you need to make S6
into S7 and add a new S6 that merges adjacent text nodes and removes
text nodes with value the empty string.

David

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