Michael Kifer wrote: > I made a proposal that we should treat builtins using the same mechanism as > modules. For instance, if a builtin is defined in the XQuery/XPath library > then we would refer to it as > > fn:dateTime(...)@http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions > > where fn is a prefix for http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions Isn't the URI enough to avoid clashes? What benefit does a module system offer in this case? [I realize the benefit of a module system for scoping but for a module consisting of entirely global builtins that doesn't apply. Runtime implementations might use modules to load/unload implementation libraries but that has nothing to do with RIF.] Dave -- Hewlett-Packard Limited Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 EnglandReceived on Friday, 16 November 2007 08:53:46 GMT
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