- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 05:09:29 -0800 (PST)
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
There are two issues with this function:
1. The function name does not accurately reflect its semantic – it does
not provide an answer if a sequence exists, but if a sequence
is non-empty.
Because
not(empty($seq)) = exists($seq)
a better name for this function would be notEmpty() or nonEmpty()
2. The example in 15.1.8.1 is incorrect:
"fn:exists($seq) returns true."
The above statement is true only if $seq is non-empty and $seq has not
been defined. One can incorrectly deduce that the function returns true
for any sequence.
Dimitre Novatchev.
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Received on Saturday, 22 November 2003 08:16:13 UTC