Re: Testing 2 XML documents for equality - a solution

Hi Wendell,

> Hey Dimitre,
> 
> At 07:05 AM 3/31/2005, you wrote:
> >In this concrete case "document equality" remains undefined.
> >Therefore, the problem based on it is also undefined.
> 
> I'm with you so far.
> 
> >  Any activity to
> >solve an undefined problem is groundless and imaginary -- something
> >like hallucination.
> 
> I can accept this provisionally, leaving aside a discussion of what we
> should mean by "groundless", "imaginary", and "hallucination". (Though
> perhaps not on XSL-List. :-) Whether any such activity is a waste of time
> is, however, another question. 

I cannot see where I said it was waste of time ?

> As is whether this doesn't describe most of
> what we human animals do -- try to solve undefined problems. (Sometimes
> this activity might lead to defining a problem and solving it, after all. :-)


Exactly.

The main problem in this thread is to define the problem.


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev