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

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

> BTW to this day most XPathers do not know you can do
key('a',@b)/key('c',@d) ... for this reason a good Quick Ref has examples

Isn't this equivalent to just:

   key('c',@d)

or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:34 AM Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Friends, I am coming in late (after a week by scenic Lake Otsego, without
> email), with apologies --
>
> Of course, the solution is an updated QuickRef such as Mulberry's Quick
> References (back in the day), and yes, good examples of this kind of thing
> are works of art. I hesitate to mention this only because I am not
> volunteering to do any actual work this time. :-)
>
> But a hand-held printable "Dungeon master's guide" cheat sheet to go with
> whatever Norm is working on, would be fantabulous (wouldn't it)?
>
> BTW to this day most XPathers do not know you can do
> key('a',@b)/key('c',@d) ... for this reason a good Quick Ref has examples
>
> https://mulberrytech.com/quickref/xpath2.pdf (by Sam, me, Debbie and
> Tommie?) - evidently, both page-printable and online-browsable forms
> present actual design problems. Think about how it should look on a
> handheld device, for example.
>
> Cheers, Wendell
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 3:36 AM Norm Tovey-Walsh ndw@xxxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > In my abundant ignorance of the editorial process I assumed that at
>> > least each function (nd other component) of the language would have a
>> > few paras of explanation; but specifically would occupy something like
>> > a <sect*> to itself at some level, with the name of the function in
>> > the <title>, or perhaps as the xml:id.  It is then trivial to list
>> > them all, with a view to indexing, checking, assigning to
>> > subcommittees, etc. But perhaps I have been working with structured
>> > document systems for too long :-)
>>
>> Thatbs certainly the case, therebs a lot of valuable information in
the
>> markup that we can use to improve access to the specs.
>>
>>                                         Be seeing you,
>>                                           norm
>>
>> --
>> Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> https://nwalsh.com/
>>
>> > Science is not a tradition, it is the organized use of evidence from
>> > the real world to make inferences about the real worldbmeaning the
real
>> > universe, which is, in Carl Saganbs words, all that is, or ever was,
or
>> > ever will be.--Richard Dawkins
>>
>>
>
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