Re: [xml] Question about xmlXPathCastStringToBoolean function

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Hi Matthias,

> > is the implementation of xmlXPathCastStringToBoolean really
> > correct?
> > I at least would have expected this function to return '0' if the
> > input
> > is a string like 'false'.
>
> Michael Kays XSLT reference says 'A zero-length string converts to
> false;
> anything else converts to true.'
> I didn't look that up in the spec itself but your expectation seems
> to be wrong.
>
>       Morus

Reference XPath Spec, para. 4.3: "a string is true if and only if
its length is non-zero"

Bill