RE: Erratum substring() function in XPath 1.0?

No. Following the detailed specification, substring("12345", 0, 3) selects
all characters whose position is >= 0 and < 3. The position of the "3" is 3,
which is not <3, therefore it is not included in the result.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svgdeveloper@aol.com [mailto:Svgdeveloper@aol.com]
> Sent: 21 March 2002 21:26
> To: www-xpath-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Erratum substring() function in XPath 1.0?
> 
> 
> It seems to me that the following bullet point for the 
> substring() function 
> is incorrect:
> 
> substring("12345", 0, 3) returns "12" 
> 
> Shouldn't it read
> substring("12345", 0, 3) returns "123"?
> 
> Andrew Watt 
>