- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:39:08 -0500 (EST)
- To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com, <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
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? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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