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

[Michael Kay]

> What's led to the revised view that EBV( atomic-sequence ) is 
> an error?

It's more consistent with the rest of the language. The old rule for EBV was
clinging to the XPath 1.0 "nothing is an error" style, whereas the XPath 2.0
philosophy is to report errors when the user does something that doesn't
make sense.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/