RE: ORA-XS-370-B: Signature of function-available()

You are right of course. I already went beyond the original proposal in
improving the original description, and was hesitant to do more, but
there is always further room for improvement.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Becker [mailto:obecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de] 
> Sent: 20 February 2004 08:20
> To: Mark.Scardina@oracle.com; public-qt-comments@w3.org; mhk@mhk.me.uk
> Cc: w3c-xsl-wg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: ORA-XS-370-B: Signature of function-available()
> 
> 
> Michael Kay wrote this revised excerpt of section 16.1.1:
> 
> > 16.1.1 Testing Availability of Functions
> > The function-available function can be used with the xsl:choose and 
> > xsl:if instructions to explicitly control how a stylesheet 
> behaves if 
> > a particular extension function is not available.
> 
> While it is true that function-available() will be used most 
> probably with xsl:choose and xsl:if, I think it can be used 
> within any XPath expression, isn't it? So the usage with 
> these instructions should be mentioned rather as a note, not 
> as the definition of function-available().
> 
> Best regards,
> Oliver Becker
> 
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