- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 04:18:43 +0700
- To: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- CC: "'www-xpath-comments@w3.org'" <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
Thanks for your comment. Kay Michael wrote: > My vote would be to use [] for boolean predicates and "!" as a subscripting > operator, so one could write "foo[position()=3]" or "foo!3"; "foo[1]" would > then mean "foo[boolean(1)]" , while "foo!'3'" would mean the same as > "foo!3". I would be reluctant to lose [] for subscripting since it is well-established for subscripting in other languages. Using ! for subscripting doesn't fit very happily with its use in the "!=" operator. James
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