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Re: 1.57.0 - Numbereditem starts at 2?


On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:30:15AM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 04:34 23/11/2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> >Michael Kay's XSLT Reference has a table of what != means
> >for different operands.  For a nodeset (the attribute node)
> >and a string, he says:
> >
> >"True if the node-set contains a node whose string-value
> >is not equal to the string operand".
> 
> 
> The preferred way of saying that is
> 
> not (@X ='string') 
> 
> for some reason Bob. 
> I can't recall why, believe its connected with the false case,
> which != screws under some circumstances.

Thanks, that did it.  I checked in the fix.

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