- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:31:11 +0100
- To: ashokmalhotra@alum.mit.edu
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> In fact, there has been a great deal of discussion about this function > and on On 3-16-2004 we decided to accept Mike Kay’s wording contained > in: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-query-operators/2004Jan/0005.html This version preserves the feature that the presence of a comment or PI affects the result (as explictly mentioned in a note). I find this rather regrettable and the function would be a lot more useful if adjacent text nodes in the sequence of element-or-text node children of elements or document nodes were merged. This is slightly verbose to write out as XPath but as the function is now being defined by prose text, that is less of an issue. On the other hand, the function will so rarely be useful, as almost always you will need to write a specific equality function that captures the information important in a particular context, that I do not think I wish to hold up the process by formally objecting to this resolution of my last call comment. I can live with this result, this function (like so many others in XPath2, regrettably) will just be part of the "excess bloat" that accounts for much of Xpath2. > Please look at the next draft of the F&O and tell us if you are > satisfied with the result. "satisfied" is putting it too strongly:-) but I don't formally object. However if the definition could be modified so that adjacent text nodes are merged, that would be an improvement, I think. Thanks for your consideration of my comments, David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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