[xsl] getting type information in xslt 2.0

[Erik Wilde <net.dret@xxxxxxxx>]

hello everybody.

i am happy to see the support of xml schema and xml schema type 
annotations in xpath 2.0. however, i am wondering how i can actually get 
that type information. xdm defines an accessor function for the type 
information:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#dm-type-name

but there does not seem to be an xpath function which lets me use this 
xdm accessor function. so the questions i am having is:

- is it correct that this xdm accessor function is not available in xpath?

- if so, how can i get the type information about an element in xpath? 
the functions on nodes in xpath seem to give no way to get to these 
precious annotations in the xdm tree.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#node-functions

funny enough, xslt 2.0 then gives me a special function to discard the 
type annotations, but i am wondering why it is that i can throw them 
away, but not get to them?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt20-20051103/#stripping-annotations

maybe i am simply not looking at the right things, but i really could 
not find a way to get the type information in xpath/xslt 2.0, so any 
help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks and cheers,

dret.