Re: References in XPath that can be representedbyastringandstill can be garbage collected

> Most probably function-depending-on-node-id() will be non-deterministic, 
> according to XQuery semantics. I don't think we want to start saying 
> specifying a resource manager with non-deterministic behaviour.

If "resource manager" will be introduced it will be formally 
non-deterministic.
Michael Kay has already shown an example demonstrating this fact:
(get-reference($rm, $node), dereference($rm, 'd0')).
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