Re: node equality: fn:node-equal()

Hi Ashok, hi F&O taskforce

 > Thank you for you comments on the F&O documents on May 2, 2003.

Thank you very much for your reply, and for having discussed the issue.
(more below)

I really appreciate the fact that XSLT and related WGs are quite 
communicative.

 > The
 > F&O taskforce discussed your comments on the 5/29 telcon and concluded
 > that there was insufficient motivation for adding another function to
 > test for value equality of nodes in addition to vendee-equal.

Which function are you referring to with "vendee-equal"?

 > We
 > agree that other definitions for value equality of nodes are possible
 > but there is not another single definition which obviously needs to be
 > added to the document.  Also, users can write functions for the flavor
 > of node equality they desire.

I guess you mean that there will be no fn:node-equal()?

 > Please let us know whether you agree with this response.

I can live with it :)

I hope that an initiative like EXSLT will design and specify a 
comprehensive library of useful functions for XSLT 2, which can be 
implemented natively by XSLT processors (not written in XSLT, but in the 
  language the processor is written in, eg C++ or Java).

Tobi

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Received on Friday, 13 June 2003 09:54:24 UTC