- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:25:34 +0200
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Bert Bos wrote: >I don't care whether the empty string matches everything or nothing >(although I suspect that most people will not consider the empty string >to be a prefix of anything), but I think we should be consistent. They would generally expect that starts-with($x, $x) returns true for any string $x, however, which is also how XPath handles the issue (the empty string is a substring of any string, so any string starts with and ends with it). The analogous of [example~=""] does not match be- cause the empty string is not a token so it cannot be in the token set. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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