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Bug 3116 - Editorial: "normal semantics of except and union" don't apply
Summary: Editorial: "normal semantics of except and union" don't apply
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Full Text 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Working drafts
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chavdar Botev
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2006-04-12 21:35 UTC by Mary Holstege
Modified: 2006-04-25 12:58 UTC (History)
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Description Mary Holstege 2006-04-12 21:35:50 UTC 
Section 3.2.5 (FTStopwordOption) says 
   Stop word lists can be combined using the usual semantics of "except" and "union".

This is not quite right: except and union apply only to nodes, so the
normal semantics do not apply and these are not the XQuery union and except
operators.
Comment 1 Chavdar Botev 2006-04-24 18:56:31 UTC 
Closing as fixed. The revision is in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-query-fttf/2006Apr/0058.html>
Comment 2 Pat Case 2006-04-25 12:58:42 UTC 
Marking bug as closed since the reporter was present and concurred in the solution to add the following text to 3.2.5 FTStopwordOption:
<p>Multiple stop word lists may be combined using "union" or "except".
If "union" is specified, every string occurring in the lists
specified by the left-hand side or the right-hand side is a stop
word. If "except" is specified, only strings occurring in the list
specified by the left-hand side but not in the list specified
by the right-hand side are stop words. </p>