- From: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:17:42 +0200
- To: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- CC: Stella Mitchell <cleo@us.ibm.com>, RIF <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> >> Section 4.4.2 >> add pred:numeric-not-equal > > Why? It is not backed up by any XPath/XQuery function. If you think we > need inequality-predicates per datatype, I think this should be raised > as an issue. I do not remember any resolution which had decided to do > such a thing. > There are other functions not backed up by XQuery functions, such as greater than or equal. XQuery does not need numeric--not-equal, because as negation. BLD does not have negation, so one could argue that it should be there. In any case, numeric--not-equal can be seen as a shortcut for "numeric-greater or numeric-less", just like numeric-greater-equal is a shortcut for "numeric-greater or numeric-equal". The question is then: why define a shortcut for the latter case, but not for the former? Best, Jos -- Jos de Bruijn debruijn@inf.unibz.it +390471016224 http://www.debruijn.net/ ---------------------------------------------- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov
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