Re: [xsl] Where is 'intersect' Operator Defined in XPath 3?

Subject: Re: [xsl] Where is 'intersect' Operator Defined in XPath 3?
From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:14:20 -0000
I'm afraid the distribution of text between the various specs often owes more
to the question of who stepped up to do the editorial work than to any
top-down design of the document suite.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 8 Aug 2022, at 16:54, Norm Tovey-Walsh ndw@xxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Eliot Kimber eliot.kimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I was looking in the XPath 3.1 functions and operators docbso I think
>> my question still standsbwhy do I not find a definition of the
>> intersect operator in the Functions and Operators spec?
>
> I donbt know if therebs a good editorial reason, or if itbs simply a
> matter of oversight. I donbt think it would have been unreasonable to
> expect an bop:intersectb function described in F&O with a pointer from
> the bintersectb operator in XPath to that function. But thatbs not
the
> way the XPath spec got written. B/\_(c)_/B/
>
>> And also why does a google search not find the entry in the XPath
>> spec?
>
> According to a bit of spam that drifted past me today, Google/Alphabet
> are engaged in a broad program of mind control over the entire human
> race. Perhaps theybre distracted a bit from the search engine business.
>
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
>
> --
> Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
>> Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they
>> are.--Bertolt Brecht

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