Re: substring: explanation of negative or zero $startingLoc behaviour from David Carlisle on 2004-03-13 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from March 2004)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:49:46 GMT
To: liam@w3.org
Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Message-Id: <200403131649.QAA04533@e3000>

Liam> Actually no, it *is* clearer.

Perhaps (or perhaps not:-) but anyway incompatible with XPath 1.
Given that specifying positions greater than the string length is not an
error and  just silently does the natural thing of not selecting
anything, the behaviour of negative starting values seems perfectly
natural to me.

David

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