RE: ORA-FO-LANG-ANYNODE 14.1.5 fn:lang

Yes, this is an odd curiosity. It would be much more logical if the function
took a node as an argument and defaulted to the context node. The only
reason we haven't done this, I suspect, is that of all the 27 functions in
XPath 1.0 this one is probably by far the least often used.
 
Michael Kay

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Buxton [mailto:stephen.buxton@oracle.com] 
Sent: 01 July 2003 03:47
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: ORA-FO-LANG-ANYNODE 14.1.5 fn:lang 



Functions and Operators, Section 14.1.5 fn:lang <fn:lang>  



Why is this function only defined on the context node ? 
It may be useful to pass in any node.