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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 00:33, Berend de Boer wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> When trying to create another XPath implementation I stumbled upon the
> somewhat complex conversion in paragraph 3.5: Booleans. To compare a
> boolean and a node-set, both are converted to Booleans. For all
> operators, including >= and <=. Can anyone tell me what:
>
> True >= False
> False >= True
>
> and
>
> False <= True
> True <= False
>
> is?
>
> IMO, paragraph 3.5 could have been simpler if all comparisons with >=
> and <= first would have been converted to number. Would make the
> paragraph shorter as well.
Take a look in 3.4 - it says:
When neither object to be compared is a node-set and the operator is <=,
<, >= or >, then the objects are compared by converting both objects to
numbers and comparing the numbers...
So your request is fulfilled :)
Paul
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