Re: [xsl] how to cast a sequence (e.g. strings to integers)

[Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> On 29/02/2012 16:19, Michael Kay wrote:
>>  On
29/02/2012 15:32, Andrew Welch wrote:


>>>>  Or in 3.0


>>>>  <xsl:sequence
select="$numbers!xs:integer(.)"/>


>>>  Was there an issue with
$numbers/xs:integer(.) ?


>>  There were people who weren't prepared to
countenance @price/2 = 2


> Whoops. That's already true in XPath 2.0, and it
doesn't seem
> to have  caused any nuclear accidents yet.


  If I remember
well the discussions in the WG, the main obstacle was the relationship with
the document ordering semantics of the '/' operator.  What for instance if
$numbers is a heterogenous sequence of nodes and strings? (for atomic
values-only sequences, it could have been easily defined as stable though)

 
Regards,

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