Re: [xsl] xsl:script: functions written in XSLT

[tra at mrbean dot stibo dot dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)]

* Jeni Tennison <mail@jenitennison.com> [Jan 09. 2001 12:48]:

> One big advantage of this would be that it would diminish the current
> extremely verbose syntax for calling named templates.  Rather than
> having to do:
> 
>   <xsl:variable name="intersection">
>     <xsl:call-template name="intersection">
>       <xsl:with-param name="set1" select="$set1" />
>       <xsl:with-param name="set2" select="$set2" />
>     </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:variable>
>   <xsl:for-each select="$intersection">
>     ...
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> I could do:
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="set:intersection($set1, $set2)">
>     ...
>   </xsl:for-each>

So what you are effectively suggesting is a re-merge of the XPath and
XSLT languages?

I think it is a good idea, if the language binding is well specified,
but left optional to the implementor.

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