- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:18:55 -0000
- To: "'Howard Katz'" <howardk@fatdog.com>, <www-ql@w3.org>
Substring returns all characters whose position in the string is >= arg2 and
< arg2+arg3, so substring("123",0,3) returns characters in positions 0, 1,
and 2; there is no character in position 0, so you get "12".
Michael Kay
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# Howard Katz
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# Subject: semantics of substring()
#
#
# I don't understand one of the examples given for fn:substring() in the F
# and
# O documentation [7.4.3]. The description of the function's behaviour says,
# "If $startingLoc is zero or negative, the substring includes characters
# from
# the beginning of the $sourceString." I take this to mean that
#
# substring( "12345", 0, 3 )
#
# is equivalent to
#
# substring( "12345", 1, 3 )
#
# which I understand evaluates to "123".
#
# The example shown in the documentation however returns "12", and Saxon
# echoes this. What am I misunderstanding?
#
# TIA,
# Howard
Received on Friday, 12 March 2004 06:18:59 UTC