ah. I believe that's one of the functions added in xpath2,
but I just told Mike over on xml-dev that Xpath2 ought to be
sent to follow xslt 1.1 into oblivion:-)
David's just worried about the obsolescence of his XPath 1.0 skills.
Life will be terribly boring when you don't have the chance to explain
to people how to simulate a conditional expression using an
infinite-length substring... ;-)
Michael Kay
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