RE: [F&O] C.2.3 eg:value-except

David:
Thank you for your comment.  Both the implementations in C.2.3
eg:value-except use fn:distinct-values and so the result may be in an
undefined order.  The F&O taskforce discussed this on the 12/2 telcon
and decided that no change was needed.

All the best, Ashok

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[mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Carlisle
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Subject: [F&O] C.2.3 eg:value-except



The description (possibly copied from C.2.1 eg:value-union) says
 
" ...in an undefined order."

However both the xslt and xquery implementations given preserve the
input
order. Either the phrase should be dropped or fn:unordered() should be
used in the implementations.

The equivalent comment in C.2.1 does not have this problem as there the
implementations use fn:distinct-values() so do return things in an 
an implementation dependent (rather than undefined) order.

David

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