> No, here you are not right. Collection is *NOT* a
> document, even a 
> logical one. XPath is applied not to collection, but
> to each individual 
> document in the collection. This is xindice modus
> operandi.

I dont want to start a flame war, but I am interested
in this issue.

Why a collection is not a document? It seem illogical
to me because that mean XPath function (such as
"count()") does not have the same behaviour with
collections and documents. For example, count() return
a single number when applied against a document.
However, it return a dot separated list when applied
on a collection. This look like against the XPath
standard, no?

>From the user perspective, I dont see why there is a
difference between a collection and a document. Form
the developper side, for sure, there is differences,
but why are they apparent to the user?

Thank you


Manuel Darveau

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