Text nodes

A text node encapsulates XML character content.

A text node can have zero or one parent. Text nodes that are children of a document or element node never appear as adjacent siblings. When a document or element node is constructed, any adjacent text node siblings are combined into a single text node. If the resulting text node is empty, it is discarded.

Text nodes have the following node properties:

• content, possibly empty
• parent, possibly empty

Text nodes can be constructed in XQuery expressions by computed constructors or by the action of a direct element constructor.