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RE: Tutorial for collection()

Subject: RE: Tutorial for collection()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:51:12 +0100
RE:  Tutorial for collection()
> Thirdly, I think it is very bad of Saxon to have two 
> completely different meaning for the file URI scheme in the 
> collection function (I refer to the catalog and the wild-card 
> forms, both of which have a completely different meaning).

Bad things often happen in the interests of backwards compatibility!

These days I generally try to keep things working for users even when I
decide my first-cut design wasn't perfect. A few of them pay my salary,
after all.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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