- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:53:15 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
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Norman Walsh writes:
> I think all of the following proposals are entirely rational and none
> of them lead to destruction:
>
> 1. Set last() = position() and explain to users that that's the way
> it works in V1.
I'm a bit unhappy with this, because as Richard observed way back, it
means last()=position() will be true when it shouldn't.
> 2. Set last() = MAXINT and explain to users that that's the way
> it works in V1.
This avoids the above-noted problem with (1).
> 3. If the pipeline author uses last() then the step has to buffer
> and give the right answer. If that causes a resource error in the
> implementation (out of memory, for example), so be it.
As stated before, I _really_ don't want implementations to have to
peer into XPaths, so I _really_ don't like this.
So, I prefer (2), can (just) live with (1), really don't want (3).
ht
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