[xquery-talk] XQuery quirk of the day
Jakub Malý
jakub at maly.cz
Fri Apr 13 12:58:21 PDT 2012
Yes, comparison of empty sequences and flattening nested sequences are
things I don't like about XPath.
Jakub.
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> If you are looking for concise...
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> if ("") then "yep" else "nope" ==> nope
> if (()) then "yep" else "nope" ==> nope
> if ("foo") then "yep" else "nope" ==> yep
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> Thanks, I just stumbled on this while playing with the not() suggestion.
> I was thinking "if fn:not() works why not no not just if ... " ahh
english vs
> code :
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> Voila ! thanks all . My code is now much cleaner (but perhaps less
readable)
> ... oh well ;)
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