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Subject: Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0: What is the most efficient way to find if a sequence is empty?
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:25:00 +0200
xpath xslt exists
> There are two complementary functions empty($seq) and exists($seq).
>
> I would expect any decent optimizer to generate exactly the same code
> for these as for count($x)=0 - but I guess there are processors out
> there that don't have decent optimizers.

Thank you, Mike.

The name "exists" does not describe very well what the function actually
does. A far-better name is "non-empty", and it is immediately perceived as
the really complementary function to empty().


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
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