Re: Detecting unbound options

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Norman Walsh writes:

> Yuck! But can we really live with this...

For sure not.

The most straightforward approach would be to add p:bound? as an XPath
extension function.

This would map strings to booleans, and presumably work yield *True*
for any inscope bound variable, parameter or option,
i.e. p:boundp?('xyzzy') is True iff $xyzzy is not an error.

A lighter-weight alternative would be to define p:unbound as a
_variable_ in the static context for XPath evaluation specified to
have a value distinct from any explicitly specified value that
unspecified optional options would receive, so you could test for
$opt=$p:unbound   This would only work with options, but would be
simpler to implement.

Would either of these send us back to Last Call?  Ask me next
week. . .

ht
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Received on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:17:08 UTC