[xquery-talk] XQuery quirk of the day
David Lee
dlee at calldei.com
Fri Apr 13 12:37:19 PDT 2012
> >
> > empty($s) or $s eq ''
>
> But empty($s) doesn't return true for an empty string, it returns
> true for an empty sequence. If $s is defined as an empty string
> you'll get false():
>
Correct thats why I used
empty($s) or $s eq ''
Or in context
if(empty($s) or $s eq '') then 'its a blank string' else 'its not'
But thanks for the tip on fn:not() !!! I gotta try that.
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