RE: [xsl] XSLT 1.1 comments

Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT 1.1 comments
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:50 -0000
> Can you be a bit more specific about which XSLT 2.0 style "type system
> ramifications" a <saxon:function> feature would raise that aren't
> already raised in <xsl:script>?

The aspiration is that XSLT 2.0 should be schema-aware in some sense, though
I don't think anyone knows exactly what this means. But one possible
implication is that functions should be in some sense polymorphic: there are
already core functions whose behavior depends on the data types of the
arguments, and it is desirable that user-written functions should also have
this property. This isn't the case for the current <saxon:function>.

Mike Kay


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