Subject: RE: [xsl] testing for string and number in XSLT 2.0 was Re: [xsl] Test For Numeric Values? From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:59:21 +0100 |
> I repeated your experiment with Saxon 8.4, changing only the variable > definition of $y to: > > <xsl:variable name="y" select="data(example/test/text())"/> > > and still got: > > $y variable value: 132131 > Test as string:false > Test as integer:false > > It seems to me that the test as xs:string should be positive, because > the typed value of a text node must be by definition xs:string. > No, the typed value of a text node is by definition untypedAtomic - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-typed-value untypedAtomic is a chameleon type that is automatically cast to the type required by the context where it is used. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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