Re: [xml] Question about xmlXPathCastStringToBoolean function

[Matthias Jung <matthias jung xtradyne com>]

Thanks,
seems like I was a little too enthusiastic. I Already found the 
behaviour in the xpath spec, too.
In my eys a a strange behaviour, but good to know that it behaves that way.

Matthias


Morus Walter wrote:

> 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
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