Saxon

Legacy ID: #7982440 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

The current thinking of the XSL WG is not to provide inline functions at the XSLT level. However, I'm sure this is an area where a well-reasoned argument could be persuasive. It's probably best to wait until we get a working draft of XSLT 2.1 into the public domain, so that you have something to comment on.

Legacy ID: #7982508 Legacy Poster: Vladimir Nesterovsky (vnesterovsky)

Am I right that inline functions will be available into xslt 2.1 indirectly, as part of xpath 2.1? I just wanted to play with them after that I've found FunctionItem class.

Legacy ID: #7982519 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

Yes, the XPath syntax for inline functions will be available in XSLT (it's not yet enabled in Saxon, but that's purely a question of working out how to switch it on.) But currently there's no plan for an inline xsl:function syntax.

Legacy ID: #8104861 Legacy Poster: Vladimir Nesterovsky (vnesterovsky)

The current thinking of the XSL WG is not to provide inline functions at the XSLT level. > However, I'm sure this is an area where a well-reasoned argument could be persuasive. How about such reasoning: xslt already went into trouble of having xpath alternatives for many instructions, so for the sake of consistency let define inline function on the xslt level.