Subject: Re: Requirements for XSLT 1.1 (rtf/node set to boolean coercion) From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:29:22 -0600 (MDT) |
David Carlisle wrote: > The new requirements document is worded so as to imply that the only > difference between rtf and node-set is the restriction of the allowed > operators. > > I had thought that the other difference was coercion to boolean, > > non-empty node sets always being true but non-empty rtf being false if > they have empty string value. > > However perhaps my (and saxon's?) reading of the spec was faulty. I thought Michael Kay mentioned on the list not too long ago that it was in fact a misreading to ever think that a result tree fragment was false, because it always contains a root node and it is, according to the spec, always treated like a node-set. Unfortunately the error wasn't discovered in time for his book going to press. I wish I still had the post I am thinking of... - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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