Subject: Re: how to cast a sequence (e.g. strings to integers)
From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:54 +0000 (GMT)
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Michael Kay wrote:
> On 29/02/2012 16:19, Michael Kay wrote:
>> On
29/02/2012 15:32, Andrew Welch wrote:
>>>> Or in 3.0
>>>> <xsl:sequence
select="$numbers!xs:integer(.)"/>
>>> Was there an issue with
$numbers/xs:integer(.) ?
>> There were people who weren't prepared to
countenance @price/2 = 2
> Whoops. That's already true in XPath 2.0, and it
doesn't seem
> to have caused any nuclear accidents yet.
If I remember
well the discussions in the WG, the main obstacle was the relationship with
the document ordering semantics of the '/' operator. What for instance if
$numbers is a heterogenous sequence of nodes and strings? (for atomic
values-only sequences, it could have been easily defined as stable though)
Regards,
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Florent Georges
http://fgeorges.org/
http://h2oconsulting.be/
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