XQuery and id()/idref(); Controlling the children of nodes in the result sequence

[Andrew Welch]

On 23/04/2008, Michael Kay <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>          $e[not(ancestor::* intersect $e)]
>
>  or you could do a recursive function which stops searching any deeper when
>  it finds a match:

if you rewrote

not(ancestor::* intersect $e)

to be

not(some $x in ancestor::* satisfies $x is $e)

...would that potentially stop searching when it found a match?  Or
would that generate the same code as the top version?


thanks
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