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

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doing my due diligence first by looking whether this has already been 
discussed previously, I found this issue: 
https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/35

I'm tempted to hijack it, attach a label 'editorial' to it and propose 
some cross-linking and name-dropping -- that is, mentioning union, 
interesect, , (comma operator) etc. in the F&O introduction, in a new 
section or in an appendix and pointing to the XPath spec.

I understand that deep links into other specs aren't current practice in 
these specs. If we keep this practice, we should at least mention the 
terms to search for in the other spec.

Contrary to what Christian said in a comment in the issue mentioned 
above, these specs, in particular F&O, are consulted not only by 
implementors but also by regular XQuery and XSLT developers, as 
illustrated by Eliot's initial question. Ok, Christian said that only 
implementors read the specs *in detail*, which is probably true. 
Therefore it is so important that the impatient XSLT/XQuery programmer 
find the keywords they are looking for in the F&O spec, which I, too, 
turn to more frequently than to the XPath spec proper.

Now the question still lingers: Hijack #35 or open a new one?

Also relevant in this context: https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/30

Gerrit


On 09.08.2022 08:33, Norm Tovey-Walsh ndw@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I suggest that
> >
> > - the Saxonica documentation link to XPath Appendix A.4 (Saxonica's
> >    own amendments, if there are any, either flagged as such or merged
> >    into the spec)
> [...]
>
> May I humbly request that you create an issue for this suggestion?
>
>    https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues
>
> (If you donbt want to, I will, but it seems fair to let it be bownedb by
> you if you prefer.)
>
>                                          Be seeing you,
>                                            norm