Subject: Re: [xsl] Dynamic XPath From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:20:53 +0100 |
> In terms of the standard - its would be good to have a function: > findNode(String path) If you look at the archives of the offical list for sending comments to the WG you'll see several requests for a standard evaluate() function (I think including one from me) I suspect that the reason it was turned down is that having evaluate() means that a lot more baggage is needed at run time. In a compiled stylesheet execution the runtime system currently doesn't need an Xpath parser or to know much about the namespace bindings used in the xpath strings. But if you have an evaluate function the runtime execution system needs to have all the parsing machinery available. If you are trying to fit XSLT on your mobile phone this might be a problem (although apparently fitting 50 odd built in types and 1000 date functions is not a problem...) David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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