- From: <vojtech.toman@emc.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 05:25:24 -0400
- To: <xproc-dev@w3.org>
> From: Geert Josten [mailto:geert.josten@daidalos.nl] > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 11:18 AM > To: Toman, Vojtech; xproc-dev@w3.org > Subject: RE: Options as strings. Blech. > > Hi Vojtech, > > I think Norm meant that all those atomic values are cast to strings > before calculation of the EBV, as they are passed in as option values. > So 0 is converted to '0', NaN to 'NaN', true() to 'true' and false() to > 'false'. Yes, that is correct. > And all those strings return true() as EBV, while a direct > evaluation to EBV would give different results.. But I still think that if var is equal to '0' (as the result converting 0 to a string), then the effective boolean value of the expression $var is false() in XPath 2.0. Regards, Vojtech -- Vojtech Toman Consultant Software Engineer EMC | Information Intelligence Group vojtech.toman@emc.com http://developer.emc.com/xmltech
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