[Versa] Issue 100A proposal, extension functions

[Michael Olson]

On Sep 4, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> 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).

Your right, just that it lets XSLT/XPointer define one.  I still like  
how they express context though so it is a good starting point for our  
document.

Mike

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