[Versa] Issue 100A proposal, extension functions

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com
Sun Sep 4 08:55:26 MDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 12:09 -0400, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:
> On 8/29/05, Michael Olson <Mike.Olson at fourthought.com> wrote:
> Certainly, I don't mind adding that section at all.  Probably should
> also take the oppurtunity to discuss some 'minimal' extension
> functionality mechanism - might be as easy as using XPaths spec as a
> guide.

XPath spec doesn't say anything about extension mechanism: it's the XSLT
spec that does.  I think it should be the same way for Versa (unless we
expect Versa to include context operations, as I explored earlier).


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