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RE: Re: XPath incompatibilities

Subject: RE: Re: XPath incompatibilities
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 10:03:53 -0500
RE:  Re: XPath incompatibilities
At 10:02 AM +0000 1/2/02, Michael Kay wrote:
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.
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