Greetings!

I'm converting Hebrew text, word by word, into code points, which is returned as:

1493 1463 1497 1468 1463 1513 1473 1456 1499 1468 1461 1448 1501

1500 1464 1489 1464 1436 1503

.... (the file is quite long)

What I expect is described at: https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#sequence-normalization

"If the |item-separator| serialization parameter is absent, then for each subsequence of adjacent strings in /S_2 /, copy a single string to the new sequence equal to the values of the strings in the subsequence concatenated in order, each separated by a single space."

I maybe very wrong but shouldn't that render the strings as?:

1493 1463 1497 1468 1463 1513 1473 1456 1499 1468 1461 1448 1501

and,

1500 1464 1489 1464 1436 1503

I've tried using replace($a, "\n", " ") but it complains that $a is a sequence, which it is.

Then I tried:

for $char in $a

return ($char, " ")

Now I get:

1493

1463

1497

etc.

I saw the new line settings under serialization but there didn't appear to be any way to defeat them altogether.

Thanks!

Patrick