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Subject: RE: [xsl] != vs not(); was Understanding Identity Transformations
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:38:52 -0000
> Is this any more clear in XSLT 2.0?

It's XPath of course rather than XSLT... the rules haven't changed; though
they are now much simpler because in 2.0 everything is a sequence, so you
don't have all the special cases for comparing a node-set to a boolean and
the like.

> I'm thinking of the changes relating to taking the first-node 
> of a node-set
> as the string value?

That never applied to operators like "=" and "!=".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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