Re: Updated XPath spec

> On 19 Dec 2020, at 08:22, Christian Grün <cg@basex.org> wrote:
> 
> I think that ≠ should better be used as alias for !=, not „ne”; otherwise, the representations can easily be mixed up (in particular, if you use a font with ligatures). Same for eq, le, ge, lt, gt.
> 

This is partly motivated by the availability of suitable symbols and partly by the fact that "ne" is (or should be) a much more reasonable thing to want to do than "!=".

Michael Kay