Re: Requirements for XSLT 1.1 (rtf/node set to boolean coercion)

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> The new requirements document is worded so as to imply that the only
> difference between rtf and node-set is the restriction of the allowed
> operators.
> 
> I had thought that the other difference was coercion to boolean,
> 
> non-empty node sets always being true but non-empty rtf being false if
> they have empty string value.
> 
> However perhaps my (and saxon's?) reading of the spec was faulty.

I thought Michael Kay mentioned on the list not too long ago that it was
in fact a misreading to ever think that a result tree fragment was false,
because it always contains a root node and it is, according to the spec,
always treated like a node-set. Unfortunately the error wasn't discovered
in time for his book going to press. I wish I still had the post I am
thinking of...

   - Mike
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