RE: [xsl] Re: XPath incompatibilities

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

> > ========================================
> > 12. If an arithmetic operator is applied to an operand that is a
> > sequence of two or more nodes, at XPath 1.0 the numeric value of the
> > first node in the sequence was used. At XPath 2.0, this is an error.
> > (The current XPath 2.0 specification does not invoke fallback
> > conversion in this case).
> > ----------------------------------------
> > WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????????????/
> >

In some cases, the incompatibilities that are documented in the WD were
discovered at a late stage of drafting: this is such an example. I don't
think this one was introduced deliberately after a considered debate, in
fact, my personal opinion is that it's a bug - but I might be wrong. We're
talking about work in progress.

Mike Kay


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