- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:22:34 GMT
- To: mhk@mhk.me.uk
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Michael, Thanks for your reply > (Note: XPath 1.0 would attempt a numeric comparison even if one of the > arguments was a string. So there is still a backwards incompatibility. > However, it is far less likely to arise in practice.) While I have argued elsewhere that any incompatibility (and the necessity of a backwards compatibility mode) should really be seen as a failure on the part of W3C to preserve the integrity of its specifications from one version to the next, some such failure is usually unavoidable, so it's down to personal judgemet as to how much incompatibility is acceptable. In this case, given where we are, I would be happy to accept a change that made the comparisons work as before on untyped data as resolving my comment satisfactorily, I would be very surprised if I found a real example in my code that required the numeric conversion from strings (although it would be easy enough to construct an example of course) David
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