[Bug 9606] New: Run-time QNames in xsl:key etc.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9606

           Summary: Run-time QNames in xsl:key etc.
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Working drafts
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: XSLT 2.1
        AssignedTo: mike@saxonica.com
        ReportedBy: sca@us.ibm.com
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


There are various places in XSLT where we use run-time lexical QNames: for
example, the first argument to xsl:key, the third argument to format-number,
etc. It would be nice if these could be written in a way that doesn't depend
on knowledge of the static in-scope namespace prefixes. This is particularly
true when the XPath expression is a dynamic one evaluated using
xsl:evaluate.

Several approaches come to mind:

(a) allow an argument of type QName instead of string. This seems a natural
approach, the only problem is that we don't allow this kind of function
overloading. We would have to change the function signature to accept
xs:anyAtomicType.

We could solve this problem if we extended the type system to allow a union
type to appear in a function signature. This would be a generally useful
capability. We could then define our own union type union(string, QName) for
use in these function signatures.

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Received on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 18:48:33 UTC