Re: [xml] PATCH: XPath eq and neq operators (NON STANDARD ?)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:13:28PM -0300, pwhelan wrote:
> Hello 
>
> This patch adds support for the 'eq' and 'neq' operators, in a way so that 
> they are just aliases for the '=' and '!=' operators. 
>
> This patch is really just a 'personal itch' kind of thing to handle the 
> needs of a customer. 

  Sorry doing this would make libxml2 non-compliant to the specification,
so obviously I have to reject your proposal:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-RelationalExpr

 You cannot do that, customer itch or not, that patch *MUST NOT* be used in
production, otherwise you simply loose all the benefits of the standard.

Daniel

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