Comments on: XPath has a lousy equality operator http://docwhat.org/2008/07/xpath-has-a-lousy-equality-operator/ Some men are discovered; others are found out Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:28:31 -0500 hourly 1 By: docwhat http://docwhat.org/2008/07/xpath-has-a-lousy-equality-operator/comment-page-1/#comment-5880 docwhat Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:04:08 +0000 http://docwhat.gerf.org/?p=121#comment-5880 @nick: Sure, but that's the same thing as turning the node-set into a string first: <code>string(//node) = 'red fish'</code> At least that's how I read the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments" rel="nofollow">Result Tree Fragments</a> section of the XSLT specs. Ciao! @nick:

Sure, but that’s the same thing as turning the node-set into a string first:
string(//node) = 'red fish'

At least that’s how I read the Result Tree Fragments section of the XSLT specs.

Ciao!

]]> By: http://nick.borko.org/ http://docwhat.org/2008/07/xpath-has-a-lousy-equality-operator/comment-page-1/#comment-5879 http://nick.borko.org/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:16:18 +0000 http://docwhat.gerf.org/?p=121#comment-5879 You may want to try doing an operation that returns a result tree fragment, which as I recall never gets turned into a string. You may want to try doing an operation that returns a result tree fragment, which as I recall never gets turned into a string.

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