On 08/07/2024 14:08, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have a question about the meaning of the starts-with() function. Consider
the strings in these two elements:
<Airport_Name>B & B BOYS RANCH </Airport_Name>
<name>B & B BOYS RANCH</name>
Notice the former uses the XML ampersand entity whereas the latter uses hex
character entity for ampersand. This expression:
starts-with(Airport_Name, name)
returns true.
Does the starts-with() function convert the strings to codepoints and then
checks that codepoint[i] in the <name> string equals codepoint[i] in the
<Airport_Name> string?
My understanding is that the XML parser has already parsed your lexical
differences into the same Unicode character(s) and that XPath simply
works with Unicode strings that are compared.
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