Subject: Re: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template) From: "Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:26:27 -0800 |
| > I think clearly separating the specification of the abilities: | > | > -> to statically define and statically | > invoke functions in XSLT, and | > | > -> to dynamically invoke functions | > | > would be useful. Some implementors may be interested in the former, | > but not the latter, or vice versa. | | I do seem to be having trouble with terminology on this topic. By | dynamic invocation do you mean something like | exsl:function()/exsl:call()? By dynamic invocation, I mean any approach which ends up evaluating runtime-provided strings to ultimately invoke functions in an XPath expressions. Those functions could be built-ins or user-defined functions, that shouldn't matter. This is an orthogonal capability to the existence of functions written in XSLT and the design of the latter should not be entangled with the desire to have a saxon:evaluate()-like function or some kind of dynamic-dispatch function invocation. I don't debate that both functionalities are useful, only that their design should be kept orthogonal and be described separately, because dynamic function invocation can work for built-in or user-written functions indepedent of the existence or not of user-written functions in XSLT. And conversely, user-written functions in XSLT could be supplied without a saxon:evaluate()-like functionality being their to invoke them dynamically. Functions written in XSLT should be invokable in a way that is indistinguishable from any built-in function. I should not *have* to pass function names as strings and argument names as strings to invoke a function which has been statically declared. ______________________________________________________________ Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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