- From: Don Chamberlin <chamberl@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:52:52 -0800
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Received on Friday, 27 February 2004 20:52:54 UTC
(IBM-FO-019) Section 15, Functions and Operators on Sequences: There should be a "deep-distinct" function that eliminates duplicate items from sequences. Duplicate atomic values should be defined by the "eq" operator. Duplicate nodes should be defined by fn:deep-equal(). In the case of duplicate nodes, the node that is retained should be implementation-dependent. This function is needed by queries that need to perform grouping where the grouping-key is a node (for example, grouping by <address> that has subelements <street> and <city>, or grouping by <author> that has subelements <first-name> and <last-name>.) --Don Chamberlin
Received on Friday, 27 February 2004 20:52:54 UTC