I see two problems with the boolean constants true and false:
1. They cannot be used in an XPath expression -- cannot be
distinguished from child::true and child::false
There are no constants "true" and "false". As in XPath 1.0, the truth
values are represented by the function calls true() and false(). No
change here from 1.0.
2. boolean('false') is true. This is especially confusing
and may be the source of many programmers' headaches.
Again, no change here from 1.0. I haven't seen this cause much problem
in practice, though the introduction of xs:boolean alongside
[fn:]boolean may be confusing. xs:boolean() uses the schema rules: '0'
and 'false' give false, '1' and 'true' give true, any other string is an
error.
Because of these I chose in my code to use functions
returning xs:integer (0 and 1) and for templates to write
code like the following:
<xsl:template name="And" match="*[namespace-uri()='allTrue-And']">
<xsl:param name="arg1"/>
<xsl:param name="arg2"/>
<xsl:value-of select="number(number($arg1) and
number($arg2))"/>
</xsl:template>
Am I wrong? Is there a way to overcome the above problems?
It seems odd to me to use numbers instead of booleans because you don't
like the string-to-boolean conversions. If you don't like the
string-to-boolean conversions just don't use them; you can still use
booleans!
My confusion is due to the following:
This transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:f="http://fxsl.sf.net/"
xmlns:test="my:test"
exclude-result-prefixes="f xs test"
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('')/*/test:*[1]">
<xsl:with-param name="arg1" select="'false'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="arg2" select="1"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<test:test/>
<xsl:template name="And" match="test:*">
<xsl:param name="arg1" as="xs:boolean"/>
<xsl:param name="arg2" as="xs:boolean"/>
<xsl:value-of
select="xs:boolean(xs:boolean($arg1) and xs:boolean($arg2))"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Produces:
true
But
<xsl:value-of
select="xs:boolean(xs:boolean('false') and xs:boolean(1))"/>
produces:
false
Is this a bug in Saxon 7.7?
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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