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At 9:54 AM +0100 12/21/01, Miloslav Nic wrote:


>========================================
>1.
>The rules for comparing a node-set to a boolean have changed. In XPath
>1.0,
>an expression such as $nodeset=true() was evaluated by converting the
>node-set to a boolean and comparing the result: so this expression would
>return true
>if $nodeset was non-empty. In XPath 2.0, this expression is handled in
>the same way as other comparisons between a sequence and a singleton: it
>is true if
>$nodeset contains at least one node whose typed value is true.
>----------------------------------------
>

This bothers me. What if the node set contains multiple nodes, some 
of which are true, some of which are false, and some of which are 
indeterminate?
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