Re: the joy of breaking out from procedural/imperative programming style (was: Re: [xsl] Peculiar Problem in .xsl file

[Gunther Schadow <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David, I have a friend who has a vote, and so, if you can summarize
the issue to him, he could have an -- if minor -- impact. I think
I agree to what I am hearing you say, but I could not credibly
express it myself. If you can type up a short negative vote pointing
out the issue (in a way that the committee could address them) I
am more than happy to forward them.

Thanks you,
-Gunther

David Carlisle wrote:

> > #1 the function is data, but I'd have to do code generation to handle
> >    it as data and then execute the generated style sheet to execute
> >    the function. 
>
> It's not clear how you'd map some standard FP constructs like "map"
> in that model. It may be possible (Dimitre's shown anything's possible
> in this area if you really set your mind to it:-) but It seems to me
> that functions as first class objects that could be passed as arguments
> to other functions could have been added to the model. and would have
> been a whole lot cleaner and more useful than 1001 functions for
> handling gxmlQueryDateTypes.
>
>
>
> > #2 what do you mean when you say "shame about the rest of xpath2
> >    though"?
>
> if I had a vote I wouldn't let xpath2 drafts pass on to
> w3c recommendation status. I think it's been hijacked into a database
> query language for typed data at the expense of its original use for
> querying documents at greatly at the expense of loss of cross platform
> portability. See other threads on this list and xml-dev in the last
> couple of days.
>
>
> > Aren't you one of the guys "in control" of that spec?
> No. I'm just a user, I'm not on the working group.
>
> David
>
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