Studies of light exotic nuclei: Combining reaction and beta-decay data

Even though being the subject of intense scrutiny during the last decade halo nuclei still offer unanswered questions. One way of adding confidence to the conclusions obtained in the often difficult experiments is to probe the same physical ovservable in various ways. The prominent example in this contribution will be the orbital structure of the two halo neutrons in ¹¹Li probed both via beta decay and high-energy reaction experiments, but other aspects of these two experiments will also be mentioned.