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Re: Is Anyone Interested In XPath 2.0 Use Cases or Requiremen

• To: dareo@m...
• Subject: Re: Is Anyone Interested In XPath 2.0 Use Cases or Requirements?
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:08:58 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E06621DB4@r...>(dareo@m...)
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> a.) As Uche pointed out, the question also involves whether node
> identity or the text values of nodes are used. Your technique works
> for identity based equivalence tests but not value based tests 
> 

Yes of course. If you want value based set equality that's
 not($b[. != $a]) and not($a[. != $b])


> b.) Calling count() four times instead of having an explicit operator
> is bad form both performance wise and readability wise.  
No disagreement there, but you did't say it wasn't pretty, you said it
wasn't possible.


David

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