Re: [xsl] Is there an OR for XSL IF?

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If one follows the link to the Functions and Operators document one 
> will not find any mention of "and" or "or" as operators - and come 
> away with the mistaken impression that these operator don't exist.
Good point. Historically there's a justification for this, in that in 
XPath 1.0 and/or (like [] and /) were not pure operators (their 
semantics didn't consist of evaluating the operands and combining the 
results, because of short-circuit semantics). However this argument 
disappeared with the way the operators are defined in XPath 2.0.

Unfortunately anything that distributes material differently between the 
specs is always a lot of effort; I've tried in the past to move the 
description of casting, and it's a nightmare.

Michael Kay
Saxonica