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

Vladimir Nesterovsky wrote:
>> 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')).

Ok. I think I like the idea of a resource manager even less if it would 
be non-deterministic.

John

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