- From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:04:13 -0600
- To: Douglas Petkanics <petkanics@research.att.com>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Doug,
Many thanks for the report. Happily, this bug has been noticed already and
the example has been fixed to accurately reflect the behavioral description.
Thanks again!
Jim
At 07:36 AM 6/10/2004 Thursday, Douglas Petkanics wrote:
>In the functions and operators document, section 7.5.4.1, the function
>fn:substring-before has the following error:
>
>Definition:
>|fn:substring-before|(|$arg1|| as ||xs:string?|, |$arg2|| as
>||xs:string?|)| as ||xs:string|
>|Behavior description: |
>||If the value of |$arg2| is the zero-length string, then the function
>returns the zero-length string.
>Example given:
>|fn:substring-before("Baloney!","")| returns "|Baloney!|".
>
>In the example, $arg2 is given as the 0 length string, however this
>returns the word Baloney. The behavioral description states that it should
>return the 0 length string. Am I misunderstanding?
>
>Thanks,
>Doug
>
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