XPath Axes: How to select text between <br/> nodes

Question

Have such XML:

<td>
  text1
  <br/>
  text2
  <br/>
  text3
  <br/>
  text4
  <br/>
</td>

Want to select text1 text2 text3 text4 with spaces or CRLF between them. If I select string(/td) it selects text1text2text3text4. If I select string(/td/text()) it selects only text1. How to select all text but with spaces in-between?

Answer 1

You cannot select string(node-set), because string() will convert the first node from its argument to string only.

Hence you get '\n text1' from string(td/text()).

Just use td/text() and you will get five (!) not four text nodes.