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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Re: XPath incompatibilities
 Another option that's on the table is that we never interpret "<" as a lexicographic comparison, forcing the user to use the compare() function instead, or perhaps the new "lt" operator.). That makes the most sense to me and follows the principle of least surprise. Naive lexicographic comparison is really not something that should be encouraged. It works, sometimes, for English-language ASCII text. It completely falls apart (i.e. fails to do what users expect it to do) when faced with other character sets and languages. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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