[jxpath 1.2] Why does InfoSetUtil.booleanValue method handle strings in the manner that it does???

[Tom Muldoon <to...@firstbest.com>]

Can anyone explain why the InfoSetUtil.booleanValue(Object object) method returns true when the object is a String if and only if it is a non-zero length string? Here's a code excerpt ...

        else if (object instanceof String) {
            return ((String) object).length() != 0;
        }
Is this a bug? Shouldn't it return true if and only if the string is equal to "true" (ignoring case, of course)?

Thanks in advance, Tom

PS. Is this message better suited for the dev list?

Re: [jxpath 1.2] Why does InfoSetUtil.booleanValue method handle strings in the manner that it does???

[Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>]

--- Tom Muldoon <to...@firstbest.com> wrote:

> Can anyone explain why the
> InfoSetUtil.booleanValue(Object object) method
> returns true when the object is a String if and only
> if it is a non-zero length string? Here's a code
> excerpt ...
> 
>         else if (object instanceof String) {
>             return ((String) object).length() != 0;
>         }
> Is this a bug? Shouldn't it return true if and only
> if the string is equal to "true" (ignoring case, of
> course)?
> 

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-boolean .

> Thanks in advance, Tom
> 
> PS. Is this message better suited for the dev list?

Nope.  :)

-Matt

> 


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