- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:46:30 +0100
- To: "'Svgdeveloper@aol.com'" <Svgdeveloper@aol.com>, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
No. Following the detailed specification, substring("12345", 0, 3) selects
all characters whose position is >= 0 and < 3. The position of the "3" is 3,
which is not <3, therefore it is not included in the result.
Michael Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svgdeveloper@aol.com [mailto:Svgdeveloper@aol.com]
> Sent: 21 March 2002 21:26
> To: www-xpath-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Erratum substring() function in XPath 1.0?
>
>
> It seems to me that the following bullet point for the
> substring() function
> is incorrect:
>
> substring("12345", 0, 3) returns "12"
>
> Shouldn't it read
> substring("12345", 0, 3) returns "123"?
>
> Andrew Watt
>
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