>> You're correct that makes much more sense in XPath 2.0 and doesn't
>> breaks the test case. I've changed it to an empty sequence, and merged
>> it to my master branch
>>
>> (http://github.com/nvdbleek/orbeon-forms/commit/7afab1ac32c5aa1b98a2b73366cc4cab6114807e).
>
> Cool I merged that in, as well as your change for the optional
> digest() parameter.
>
>> I always thought seconds-from-dateTime returned an integer when the
>> input was valid, but the test suite has a case that tests with
>> '1970-01-01T00:00:00.001Z, and expects 0.001. I'm not sure why you
>> would ever need the fractional part in a form, and you can run into
>> rounding errors... Maybe we should bring this to the WG groups
>> attention (I was to focussed on making the test suite tests working).
>> Do you think it is worth sending an e-mail to the WG list?
>
> I guess one question for the group is whether for
> seconds-from-dateTime(), the types should be different when using
> XPath 1.0 vs. 2.0 instead of just mapping exactly to the closest XPath
> 1.0 type.
>
> In the work you have done here:
>
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XPath_2.0
>
> the function are defined as:
>
> xs:integer seconds-from-dateTime(xs:string)
> xs:string seconds-to-dateTime(numeric)
>
> I suppose that an XPath 2.0 signature would look more like:
>
> xs:decimal seconds-from-dateTime(xs:dateTime)
> xs:dateTime seconds-to-dateTime(xs:numeric)
>
> Since we introduce an XPath version number specified so that the
> XForms engine can put itself in XPath 1.0 compatibility mode, we could
> say that XForms functions return types matching the XForms 1.1 types
> if xpath-version="1.0". Otherwise, the XPath 2.0-compatible signatures
> are used. Migrating an XPath 1.0 form to XPath 2.0 will likely require
> some changes to a form anyway.
>
> Bottom line is that yes, this would be best discussed by the XForms
> working group. Do you want to send an email with some of what we
> discussed above? Feel free to copy/paste if needed.
>
> -Erik
>
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