Re: Fwd: Pattern matching error in xsl:key
Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Sep 2020 14:09:19 -0400
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 1:29 PM Chapman Flack <chap-JULfBfA8satPFr4CO1/[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/06/20 13:12, Ihe Onwuka wrote: > > > There is no need however to shoehorn - "this is the way the > > system/specs say it works" to be synonymous with " this makes sense" > > The differences between a literal, an expression, and a literal evaluated > as an expression appear in pretty much every language I've ever known. > They can't be glossed over, and once they aren't, they do come to make > sense. > > Regards, > -Chap > because in other languages those concepts are usually syntactically distinctive and said syntactic distinctiveness is a clear indication that distinctive behavior shouldn't be unexpected. OTOH if you design systems where you provide smartass explanations for things that look the same behaving differently your users will just want to slap you. . _______________________________________________ saxon-help mailing list archived at http://saxon.markmail.org/ [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/saxon-help