[xquery-talk] Serialization question

[Leo Studer]

Hello 

I use Oxygen with Saxon enterprise edition 9.6.05.
My output method is “text”.

The following statement does its job correctly

for $c in doc("factbook.xml")//country order by $c/@name return $c/@name/string()

However I do not understand why 

for $c in doc("factbook.xml")//country order by $c/@name return $c/@name

returns an empty sequence. 
What especially intrigues me is that ordering with $c/@name works fine (no conversion to string) and the output as text not.

Any hints?

Thanks in advance
Leo