Re: [xsl] Over the years, have you created an XSLT library?

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 3:17b/AM Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Over the years, as you've written many XSLT programs, have you created a
> library of user-defined functions?


https://fxsl.sourceforge.net/   For XSLT 2.0 or 1.0 . Higher order
functions are a standard feature of XPath 3.


>
>
> If yes, then I have two questions for you:
>
> 1. What functions in your library do you find yourself using most often?
>

The folds, partial applications, closures.



>
> 2. As your library gets richer and richer, do you find that it takes you
> less and less time to write new XSLT programs?
>

Just using higher-order functions makes it possible to easily solve
problems that were considered to be "almost impossible to solve" before. Of
course, this frees some time for us, thus we can write additional code.

Here by "code" I generally mean XPath code - which of course can be present
both within XSLT or XQuery code modules.


>
> /Roger