On 8 Apr 2014, at 14:42, Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)wendellpiez(_dot_)com> wrote:
Christian,
This is easy to find in the spec ... if you look at the right spec. :-)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#sequences
Cheers, Wendell
It might also be worth reminding people WHY a singleton and a sequence of
length one are the same thing in XDM.
Consider
<book>
<author>John</author>
</book>
Is child::author a single element, or a sequence of elements with length one?
You can't tell without a schema. Treating both the same way is part of the
"semi-structuredness" of XPath as an XML processing language. Contrast data
binding tools, which rely on a schema to decide whether author is a
single-valued or list-valued property, and cause your programs to break if the
schema changes.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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