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

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

Thus the language is in such a state that not all operators can be found in
a single document ...

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 10:14 AM Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>
> > https://nwalsh.com/
> >
> >> Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they
> >> are.--Bertolt Brecht
> >
>
>
>

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