"Re: [xml] xpath return type"

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

on 2/17/2004 3:06 PM Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Petr Pajas wrote:
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>  > Stefan Seefeld <seefeld sympatico ca> writes:
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>  >>   <xsl:message>starts with 'hello':<xsl:value-of
>  >>select="starts-with('hello', $var)"/></xsl:message>
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>  > You probably meant starts-with($var,'hello') :-)
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> now that is embarassing ! :-)
> I never looked up the specs for this function myself, but
> instead relied on a textbook, which seems to be in error
> ('The XSL Companion' by Neil Bradley, page 260, in case
> anybody cares).

Jip, it's like me reading that non-prefixed attributes are in the 
"empty-namespace" or "null-namespace" in XML 1.0 and then learning from 
the specs that they are in no namespace at all.


Regards,

Kasimier