[xquery-talk] range implementations -- which is correct?

[Howard Katz]

Thanks Michael! I'm looking forward to testing that against Longhorn. :-)
Howard 

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Michael Rys [mailto:mrys at microsoft.com] 
 > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:08 PM
 > To: Howard Katz; talk at xquery.com
 > Subject: RE: [xquery-talk] range implementations -- which is correct?
 > 
 > I think, Galax and Saxon are both correct according to their 
 > WD and Saxon is correct against the most recent.
 > 
 > Best regards
 > Michael
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: talk-bounces at xquery.com [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On
 > Behalf
 > > Of Howard Katz
 > > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 2:48 PM
 > > To: talk at xquery.com
 > > Subject: [xquery-talk] range implementations -- which is correct?
 > > 
 > > 
 > > What's the result of invoking
 > > 
 > >        ( <a/>, <b/>, <c/> )[ 1 to 2 ]
 > > 
 > > ----------------------------
 > > 
 > > MarkLogic 3.0 (May 2003 wd) returns
 > > 
 > >      <a/>
 > >      <b/>
 > > 
 > > Galax 0.5.0 (Oct 2004 wd) returns
 > > 
 > >      <a/>
 > >      <b/>
 > >      <c/>
 > > 
 > > Saxon 8.4 (Feb 2005 wd) returns
 > > 
 > >    "Error: Effective boolean value is not defined for a sequence
 > >     of two or more items starting with an atomic value
 > > 
 > > The situation is made somewhat more confusing because each
 > implementation
 > > is
 > > implemented against a different version of the wd. More precisely
 > there
 > > are
 > > two questions:
 > > 
 > > (1) Which of the above results are correct (or incorrect) for the
 > version
 > > of
 > > the working draft against which they were implemented, and
 > > (2) Which are correct (or incorrect) against the most 
 > recent working
 > draft
 > > of April 2005?
 > > 
 > > Howard
 > > 
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