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

["Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Most likely) Dimitre has more 'library' entries than any of us Roger.

regards

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 16:37, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Would you give an example of an XPath function that solves a common task
> and you would put in a library?
>
> All of the FXSL functions are such examples.
>
> As for new functions, my recent Medium articles may give us an idea:
>
>
>    - "Generators in Xpath",
>    https://medium.com/@dimitrenovatchev/generators-in-xpath-987a609cfbd5,
>    and friendly link for non-members of Medium.com:
>
https://medium.com/@dimitrenovatchev/generators-in-xpath-987a609cfbd5?sk=6334
d48f9565f78eba90b212e461243b
>    - "Laziness in XPath. The trouble with fn:fold-right",
>
https://medium.com/@dimitrenovatchev/laziness-in-xpath-the-trouble-with-fn-fo
ld-right-cbb1cc654d1c,
>    friends link:
>
https://medium.com/@dimitrenovatchev/laziness-in-xpath-the-trouble-with-fn-fo
ld-right-cbb1cc654d1c?sk=872244cf80bfcb52d67bcb8b359478ff
>
> Other functions/features that I have proposed for inclusion in XPath 4 are:
>
>    - Decorators, https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/106
>    - Sets, https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/34
>    - Extending maps to allow as keys not only atomic values, thus making
>    possible implementing sets and caching of function-calls results,
>    https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/119
>
> These may or maynot be included in XPath 4 (and the Functions and
> Operators standard specification), and if they don't get included there,
> these would be the primary candidates to be provided in a 3-rd party
> library.
>
> More generally, as I said before, any established and used in best
> practices Design Pattern.
>
> Thanks,
> Dimitre.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 2:46b/AM Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dimitre wrote:
>>
>> > If I were lucky enough to have my daily work in an XPath-based
>> > programming environment, I would definitely develop libraries
>> > of functions that are useful for solving common tasks
>>
>> Would you give an example of an XPath function that solves a common task
>> and you would put in a library?
>>
>> /Roger
>>
>>
>>
>>
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