Re: [xsl] [exsl] EXSLT 1.0 - Common, Sets and Math

Subject: Re: [xsl] [exsl] EXSLT 1.0 - Common, Sets and Math
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:31:31 GMT
> Also, the difficulties - as the thread has shown - appear to be
> eminently surmountable,

surmountable, certainly. Whether that is doable in what I would have
guessed was the original timeframe for a 1.1 release is not so clear.

For exslt:*  one can be more experimental (for staters, one could just
inherit the saxon:* versions) but if such a feature were to be added
officially to the language it isn't clear we've yet seen a really stable
suggestion. (Of course it's turned out that xsl:script as spec'd hasn't
been universally acclaimed either but that was in many ways a much
easier thing, just merging the features of the java bindings of the
current systems, and the msxml script element, and adding a useful
indirection that meant the namespace URI used for the extension function
wasn't directly pointing at a java implementation of the function)
 
As for what functions to stick in exslt I'd have a policy of if in doubt
add it. So in particular I'd probably start by suggesting all the saxon
ones. (Thus including saxon:function) This just gives a namespace
that isn't saxon specific that means that other implementers can choose
to implement these functions if they wish. Similiarly of course they
could suggest further functions to be added.

David

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