Re: Extension candidates

"Michael Kay" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:37 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xslt.extensions
Message-ID <64E4ACE4EB454774A9E8201126040F32@Sealion>
> >   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/