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As always Martin Honnen has a solution:

  <xsl:function name="mf:construct" as="item()">
    <xsl:param name="constructor" as="xs:string"/>
    <xsl:param name="arguments" as="array(*)"/>
    <xsl:sequence
      select="ixsl:window()
              => ixsl:call(
                   'Reflect.construct', 
                    [ixsl:window() => ixsl:get($constructor), $arguments]
                 )"/>
  </xsl:function>

I just think it feels like that should be a built-in function under the ixsl namespace.

Hi Martynas,

I'm having a little trouble understanding exactly what you're trying to do. I think you're probably right that an ixsl function makes sense, but I'd like to be able to construct some more test cases.

In the initial report where you've got the var map = ... example. Are you saying you'd like to be able to construct that whole map as a JavaScript object from the Saxon-JS side?

It seems to me you could construct it as an XDM map pretty easily. Is there a context where you want to use it that doesn't work if it's an XDM map?

Sorry if I'm being slow on the uptake.

Basically I'm looking for a way to invoke the new keyword. Yes I'm looking to construct the object from the Saxon-JS side, or rather multiple objects I could store in separate variables and then compose as necessary. I'd like to be able to port JS code like that to Saxon-JS.

Maybe it can be solved using XDM maps -- could I please see a small example of that? I was looking at the XDM to JavaScript Conversion and my impression was that there is not a direct way to construct a JS object as an XDM map? How do you specify the class name such as ol.Map or ol.source.OSM?

Right. I was fixated on the "object" part not the "new" part. I think the workaround that Martynas proposed might be the current workaround. Another possibility, if there are only a small number of objects like this, would be to create global JavaScript functions that do the construction.

Yes the workaround works. I would like to propose an ixsl:new extension function though. For example: ixsl:new('Class', [ $arg ]).

ixsl:new() without arguments could be used to create an empty JSON object ({ }).