Re: [FO] fn:substring arguments

Thanks, Mike for the answer and clarifying my doubt.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>> What is the motivation for the F&O spec to define the
>> startingLoc argument as, xs:double and not an integer?
>
> Primarily backwards compatibility: XPath 1.0 only had one numeric data type,
> which was equivalent to xs:double in XPath 2.0. If it had been defined as
> xs:integer, then valid XPath 1.0 expressions such as
>
> substring($s, 1, (string-length($s) div 2))
>
> would have been rejected as errors in XPath 2.0.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi