Subject: Re: [xsl] in search for more elegant XPaths From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:54:38 +0100 |
>> as the predicate is true if teh string is non empty. >> (Although I have a feeling saxon for example does that >> rewrite for you anyway, so it may make no difference.) > >Indeed. Saxon will neither construct a string with the whitespace removed, >nor count the characters that remain after removing them: with either >expression it simply scans the string (or rather, its UTF16 representation) >and returns false as soon as it hits a non-whitespace codepoint. ueseful optimisations. Could it also optimise 'teh'='the' to true() at the same time? It would save a lot of grief. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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