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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Probably it works well enough in practice; if it was part of a library > i was distributing, at the very least i'd want to document that the > order is not guaranteed. Definitely! But if I am the dying man and the banana is right in front of my mouth, I will grab and eat it, no matter what the documentation says. Cheers, Dimitre On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 19:06 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev > dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:27 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx < > > xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I am happy to state that the provided solution produces the correct > > result > > on all currently-existing XPath engines :) > > Does that include Oracle and DB2? What if the XPath expression is used > inside an "unordered" expression? > > > Probably it works well enough in practice; if it was part of a library > i was distributing, at the very least i'd want to document that the > order is not guaranteed. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. > Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org > > > -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all ------------------------------------ Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play ------------------------------------- To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. ------------------------------------- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ------------------------------------- Typing monkeys will write all Shakespeare's works in 200yrs.Will they write all patents, too? :) ------------------------------------- Sanity is madness put to good use. ------------------------------------- I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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