For what it's worth, in Saxon XQuery, an equivalent query
(diacritic-insensitive)
let $s := "Fén"
let $m := "fen"
return starts-with($s, $m, "http://saxon.sf.net/collation?strength=primary";)
evaluates as true.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, David Sewell wrote:
> I'm trying to do a case-insensitive, diacritic-insensitive comparison.
> According to the rules for collations, I should get that with an 'S1'
> strength attribute. This works as expected:
>
> let $s := "Fén"
> let $m := "fen"
> return compare($s, $m, "http://marklogic.com/collation//S1";)
>
> ==> 0 [i.e., strings evaluate as identical]
>
> but
>
> let $s := "Fén"
> let $m := "fen"
> return starts-with($s, $m, "http://marklogic.com/collation//S1";)
>
> ==> false
>
> (same result with fn:ends-with(), fn:contains())
>
> Is there a reason for this? Or is it a bug?
>
> Based on http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-starts-with it seems
> to me like a bug.
>
>
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