Re: [xsl] XQuery/XPath 3.1: Node List to Node Set ("distinct nodes")

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Probably it works well enough in practice; if it was part of a library
>   i was distributing, at the very least i'd want to document that the
>   order is not guaranteed.

Definitely!

But if I am the dying man and the banana is right in front of my mouth, I
will grab and eat it, no matter what the documentation says.

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:47 AM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 19:06 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
> dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:27 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
> > xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I am happy to state that the provided solution produces the correct
> > result
> > on all currently-existing XPath engines :)
>
> Does that include Oracle and DB2? What if the XPath expression is used
> inside an "unordered" expression?
>
>
> Probably it works well enough in practice; if it was part of a library
> i was distributing, at the very least i'd want to document that the
> order is not guaranteed.
>
> Liam
>
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Dimitre Novatchev
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