[xquery-talk] Sequence of Nodes Comparison

[Michael Kay]

let $i := (<item id="2">ABC</item>, <item id="2">DEF</item>, <item2 
id="3">XYZ</item2>) let $j := (<item id="2">DEF</item>, <item2 
id="3">XYZ</item2>, <item id="1">ABC</item>) return every $x in $i 
satisfies some $y in $j satisfies deep-equal($x, $y) : )

(a) that's O(n^2)

(b) it will return true if the first list is empty and the second 
contains anything at all (or nothing). At the very least you need to 
check the lengths are equal; but even then, there's a potential problem 
with duplicates.

Michael Kay
Saxonica