RE: Grammatical erratum in XPath spec

It is unlikely that there is much value is fixing such a small editorial
problem in XPath 1.0.  Most of our resources are currently being used to
work on XPath 2.0.

/paulc
Chair, XML Query WG

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Elliotte Harold
> Sent: June 22, 2005 12:29 PM
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> Subject: Grammatical erratum in XPath spec
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> Section 4.2 says,
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> The string-length returns the number of characters in the string (see
> [3.6 Strings]). If the argument is omitted, it defaults to the context
> node converted to a string, in other words the string-value of the
> context node.
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> That should be
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> The string-length function returns the number of characters in the
> string (see [3.6 Strings]). If the argument is omitted, it defaults to
> the context node converted to a string, in other words the
string-value
> of the context node.
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> i.e. add the word "function"
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