Subject: Re: the joy of breaking out from procedural/imperative programming style (was: Re: [xsl] Peculiar Problem in .xsl file From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:02:26 -0500 |
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
#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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