Re: [xsl] Problem with "except" operator

Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with "except" operator
From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:38:42 +0000
> For the (short) example data posted it does not matter but in general I
> think the above should be
>  <xsl:value-of select="$users[not(. = $friends)]"/>
> as that is quite different from $users[. != $friends].

Is that right?  It always takes me a while to "get it" again, but I
think you only need to be concerned about != when both sides are
sequences of more than 1 item.  When the LHS is a single item, it's
ok.

So the above are equivalent.




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