I should stress that my answer was not a statement of historical fact
based on archival research, it was a post-hoc rationalization. A serious
historical answer to such questions is rarely easy to provide; in most
cases, a trawl through the minutes might reveal that the matter was
never formally discussed, and so the question becomes, why did no one
propose it? To answer that, you have to ask all the individuals who
failed to propose it; or you have to read into the mindset of the
committee and think about why the committee would not have welcomed a
proposal.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 13/02/2012 03:02, Birnbaum, David J wrote:
Dear X-Query list,
Thank you all for the quick responses. I regret not wording my
question more carefully, but what I was asking was why someone
decided, once upon a time, not to support this function in XQuery.
That developers have added the functionality to their products, and
that it will be a core part of XQuery 3.0, is useful information, but
it doesn't explain why it was omitted in the first place. I'm not
complaining about the decision, either; I'm just asking whether anyone
on this list was privy to the reasoning behind it.
Thanks,
David
[email protected]
*From:*Christian Grün [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Sunday, February 12, 2012 9:48 PM
*To:* Gajanan Chinchwadkar
*Cc:* [email protected]; Birnbaum, David J
*Subject:* Re: [xquery-talk] format-number()?
..please check out BaseX, or Zorba, or eXist..
Am 13.02.2012 03:43 schrieb "Gajanan Chinchwadkar"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
MarkLogic supports format-number() and other formatting functions
(date, time, dateTime) from MarkLogic server 4.2.1 onwards.
Thanks,
Gajanan
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Matthias Brantner
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
XQuery 3.0 will support it (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#func-format-number).
Also, some XQuery processor implement it already (e.g., Zorba, BaseX,
and eXist)
HTH
Matthias
On Feb 12, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Birnbaum, David J wrote:
>> Dear XQuery List,
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know why XPath format-number() is not available
>> in XQuery? This is just a historical question, and not a request for
>> technical advice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
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