> In other words, all the type conversion functions except boolean() 
> will operate on the context node if the argument is omitted. Is there 
> a reason for this inconsistency?

Yes. I wrote to them pointing out that there was no point calling boolean()
with no arguments since it was a synonym of true(): there is always a
context node.

Mike Kay 


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