RE: MS-FO-LC1-093: fn:item-at

> Michael:
> As you may remember we discussed the removal of this function 
> at the F&O meeting in Redmond on 7/18 and the F&O taskforce 
> decided not to recommend its removal.

Was any decision made to align the semantics of item-at($s, $p) with $s[$p],
so that implementations can use the same underlying code? At present
item-at() fails if $p is out of range, whereas $s[$p] returns ().

Michael Kay 

> 
> All the best, Ashok
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments- 
> > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Rys
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:58 AM
> > To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> > Subject: MS-FO-LC1-093: fn:item-at
> > 
> > 
> > Class: Editorial
> > 
> > Section 15.1.6: We already have the [] notation for indexing
> sequences.
> > This function is not needed except for defining the semantics of 
> > [position()=x] (at most). In that case, move this into the formal 
> > semantics as a function belonging to fs: pseudo-namespace.
> > 
> 
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