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David Carlisle wrote:
no even if the attribute had the same name, it would be a different node Ah, thanks for correcting me. I did a test that I thought proofed my right. However, I made the wrong assumptions for the test resulting in wrong results resulting in wrong conclusions.... Which, makes me wonder in what scenario's 'intersect' can be useful. It appears to me that normal grouping is more flexible. = allows you do do value-based intersection (of strings for example) Yes. And that is basically what many of us showed in response to the OP. But don't you find '$1 intersect $2' much more readable than '$1[.=$2]'? (if automatic node-to-value were applied for intersect). Undoubtedly there are subtle reasons that the designers of XPath 2 have foreseen while disallowing union, intersect and except to operate on any type of sequences, incl. atomic types (even though there are other operators that yield the same result). -- Abel
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