On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:53 PM, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > ======= > > This is documented as implementation dependent, so any experiments are > limited in value to that particular implementation version. > >> Selects an item from the input sequence $arg whose value is greater >> than or equal to the value of every other item in the input sequence. >> If there are two or more such items, then the specific item whose >> value is returned is *implementation dependent*. > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-max > ============ > [DAL:] > Even if it were not system dependent there is no defined way to take an > atomic value and figure out which node it came from, > so, IMHO, the statement of implementation dependency is only there because > its also non-testable ... > even given this ... > max( ( <a>1.0</a> , <b>1.00</b> ) ) => 1 > > a or b ? good luck. >
...again exactly why I was curious... (used to be a tester), your test case is better than the one I tried. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
