Re: justify or remove aliases: base-uri, resolve-uri

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 09:03 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
[...]
> Does this justification satisfy you?

Yes, that works.

> Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> writes:
> 
> > The xproc spec makes aliases of fn:base-uri and fn:resolve-uri:
> [...]
> > Please add rationale for the aliases or take them out.
> 
> Indeed, as this thread reveals, they are not strictly-speaking
> aliases, but the prose is not clear on this point. I propose to make
> the following editorial changes:
> 
>   2.7.5 Base URI
> 
>   Returns the base URI of the specified node, if it has one. This
>   function provides an interoperable way for XPath 1.0 based
>   processors to access the base URI of a node. It is conceptually the
>   same as the XPath 2.0 fn:base-uri() function.
> 
>   If no argument is specified, the context item is taken to be the
>   argument.
> 
>   This function returns the [base-uri] property of its argument, or
>   the empty string if no base URI is defined for that argument or
>   argument type.
> 
>   Note:
> 
>     This function is defined in our namespace because it would be
>     inappropriate to require XPath 1.0 based processors to support the
>     fn:base-uri function; it's semantics are deeply rooted in the
>     XPath 2.0 data model which differs from the XPath 1.0 data model.
> 
> With similar changes to p:resolve-uri.
> 
> Does this justification satisfy you?
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
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