Re: $p:position available everywhere

/ Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> was heard to say:
| I submit a proposal to make $p:position available everywhere
| It would be 0 for an empty sequence
| and 1 for a single document
| or the position of the current document in the sequence

I'm not sure how "everywhere" applies. Can you give an example of
somewhere else you might want it? I suppose in p:for-each, but I
can't think of anywhere else where it makes sense.

| PS : in a case of empty sequence what would be the evaluation of an
| XPath expression ?

That probably needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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                                          norm

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