Subject: Re: [xsl] index-of and empty stuff From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:04:42 -0500 |
Ihe, Let $s := '' (the empty string) index-of(('a','b','c'),$s) -> 0 index-of(('a','b','c',''),$s) -> 4 Personally I am happy not to get 0, in either case, when $s is (). :-) Cheers, Wendell Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > if I am searching a sequence of strings with index-of having the empty > string as the second argument will give me 0. > > Why throw an error if the 2nd argument is empty sequence, > irrespective of the type of the first argument. > > Isn't 0 the obvious answer here.
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