Re: compare two node sets

Liam: Yes. It is the definition of "the same" that is at the heart of this
problem (as of so many).

Cheers, Wendell

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On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 15:42 +0000, Piez, Wendell A. (Fed)
wendell.piez@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another solution not yet suggested in this thread is to avoid deep-
> equal() and rely on a signature function.
Yes. I admit i tend to avoid deep-equal for this sort of thing because of its
behaviour with comments or processing instructions, and because the definition
of equality tends to vary over time - e.g. wanting to ignore prefix and
suffic/credentials elements or needing a case- insensitive comparison on
family name to cope with latin transcriptions of Japanese family names.

But that depends on the business context - the source of the data and who
mantains the various parts of the XSLT.

Liam

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