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XPath: what's the answre to True >= False

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• Subject: XPath: what's the answre to True >= False
• From: Berend de Boer <berend@x...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:33:16 +1300
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Hello All,

When trying to create another XPath implementation I stumbled upon the 
somewhat complex conversion in paragraph 3.5: Booleans. To compare a 
boolean and a node-set, both are converted to Booleans. For all 
operators, including >= and <=. Can anyone tell me what:

    True >= False
    False >= True

and

    False <= True
    True <= False

is?

IMO, paragraph 3.5 could have been simpler if all comparisons with >= 
and <= first would have been converted to number. Would make the 
paragraph shorter as well.

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Thank you very much for any anwsers,

Berend. (-:

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