Re: [xsl] getting type information in xslt 2.0

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> What problem makes you believe introspecting type annotations is the solution?

When producing a partial application (function) FXSL needs to discover
the actual types of the arguments used so far in order to be able to
re-construct the arguments with exactly those types later, when all
arguments for the original function have been collected.

For primitive (atomic, built-in) xml schema types this is done here:

   http://fxsl.cvs.sourceforge.net/fxsl/fxsl-xslt2/f/func-type.xsl?revision=1.6&view=markup


Florent Georges has worked on a way to copy the type information of
complex (user-defined) types -- but in this case it is just a copy
operation, not really getting access to the type information itself:


    http://fgeorges.blogspot.com/2006/08/type-preserving-copy-in-xslt-20.html

Unfortunately, we have not been able to extend any of these two
solutions to solve the problem addressed by the other solution.

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Dimitre Novatchev
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