| SAXONICA |
All namespace URIs starting with http://www.w3.org/2003/11 have been updated to
http://www.w3.org/2004/07, as defined in the July 2004 working drafts.
The rules for comparing an xs:dateTime or xs:time with a timezone to one without a timezone have been changed to use the implicit timezone rather than UTC. Corresponding change for xs:date not yet made.
The XSLT key() function now takes an optional third
argument: this is a node identifying the document to be searched.
The concat() function now accepts any atomic value as an argument, and
implicitly casts the supplied value to a string.
The format-dateTime() and format-time() functions
have been changed to handle the 12-hour clock using the convention of numbering the hour starting at
noon or midnight as 12 rather than 0, and treating midnight as a.m. and noon as p.m.
The six functions for extracting the components of a duration are now
named years-from-duration(), months-from-duration(), days-from-duration()
hours-from-duration(), minutes-from-duration(), seconds-from-duration().
The new names have been added; previous names are retained as synonyms for the time being. The
functionality is unchanged.
The sum() function can now total a sequence of durations,
and accepts an optional second argument to indicate the value to be returned when the sequence is
empty. This defaults to the integer zero.
The avg() function can now average a sequence of durations.
The min() and max() functions, given a set of untypedAtomic
values as input, now return the xs:double value after converting the value to a number,
not the original
untypedAtomic value. For example, given an untyped input document, min(//item/@val)
will now typically return an xs:double.
The implementation of the XSLT function-available() function has
been extended so it now recognizes all the functions in the static context, including system functions,
Saxon-specific extension functions, Java extension functions, constructor functions (including those
corresponding to user-defined atomic types in the schema-aware product), stylesheet functions, and
imported XQuery functions. This applies whether the function-name is supplied as a string literal (the usual
case) or whether it is known only at run-time (a pathological case encountered only in conformance tests).
The function namespace-uri-from-QName() now returns a zero-length
string rather than an empty sequence if the QName is in the null namespace.
The two-argument form of the idref() function is
implemented (this was introduced since the November 2003 working drafts).
The base-uri() with no arguments now returns the base URI of the context
node. The base URI of the static context (that is, the base URI of the stylesheet or query module) is now obtained
using the new function static-base-uri(). (This change was agreed by the Working Groups on 24 Aug 2004.)
The ability to cast from an xs:time to an xs:dateTime has been removed. This was the
only remaining cast whose result was context-dependent, so the WGs have removed the functionality. The functionality
has been replaced with a new function dateTime that takes a date and time as its two arguments.
The function QName is introduced as a replacement for expanded-QName. For
the time being, the old name is retained as a synonym.
Conversion of QName to string is now supported. A QName value always retains
the prefix that was specified when the QName was constructed, and although this plays no part in comparing QName
values, the original prefix is used when the QName is converted to a string.
