[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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