RE: ORA-FO-252-Q: Missing feature: overloaded versions of fn:id and fn:idref from Michael Kay on 2004-02-17 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:03:56 -0000
To: "'Stephen Buxton'" <Stephen.Buxton@oracle.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000601c3f591$2d2c8020$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> 
> SECTION 15.4.2: fn:id
> 
> It would be nice to have overloaded versions for fn:id and 
> fn:idref, which explicitly specify the document node to be 
> searched from.
> 
> fn:id($arg1 as xs:string*, $arg2 as node()?) as element()* 
> fn:idref($arg1 as xs:string*, $arg2 as node()?) as node()* 
> 

It's easy to achieve this effect with a path expression:

$arg2/id($arg1)

Perhaps an example should point this out.

Michael Kay

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:03:17 UTC