- From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:29:49 +0100
- To: "'James Clark'" <jjc@jclark.com>, Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- Cc: "'francis@redrice.com'" <francis@redrice.com>, "'xsl-editors@w3.org'" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
> The main reason for not defining it as SAXON currently does is that it > makes > > $x = false() > > always be false when $x is a node-set, which seems very unintuitive. > Any attempt to elide the existential qualifier in set comparisons will always produce non-intuitive results. We are saddled with the fact that "x!=y" does not mean "not(x=y)", that "a=b and a=c" does not imply "b=c", that "a<b and a>b" can be true, and that "@x=@x" can be false. I guess it's too late to fix it :-( Mike
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