[exslt] Extension candidates

Michael Kay mike at saxonica.com
Fri Dec 19 10:39:37 MST 2008


> >   First two little questions (a bit OT here, sorry): 1/ it 
> seems it is 
> > not possible to create a function item from a dynamic 
> QName, is it on 
> > purpose? (I guess so),
> 
> I hadn't thought about making it dynamic. The problem with 
> doing so would mainly be that the implementation could know 
> very little about the type of a function whose name was not 
> known at compile time.

I think that making things dynamic/reflexive is a separate enhancement to
the language: it's in the space of dyn:evaluate(). The two things shouldn't
be confused.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



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