[Bug 29374] New: fn:transform

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=29374

            Bug ID: 29374
           Summary: fn:transform
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Candidate Recommendation
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: XQuery 3.1
          Assignee: jonathan.robie@gmail.com
          Reporter: benito@benibela.de
        QA Contact: public-qt-comments@w3.org
  Target Milestone: ---

It is strange that in XQuery the function to load an xquery module has the long
name fn:load-xquery-module, but the function to run an xsl transformation has
the short name fn:transform. After all, when you write XQuery, XQuery is
already implicitly used, so you rather expect a short fn:load-module or even
just fn:module. While XSLT is an entire different language, so it seems more
logical to have fn:run-xslt or fn:xsl-transform. Seems it was heavily
influenced by a XSLT working group, but it is an XPath function, not an XSLT
function...

I hope a standalone XQuery processor is not required to support fn:transform.


And unfortunately I already have a custom transform function in my
implementation.
Defined as 

pxp:transform($root as item()*, $f as function(*), $options as map()) as
item()*){
 for $i in $root return $f($i)!(if (. instance of node() and ( . is $i or
$options("always-recurse") ) ) then (
                 typeswitch (.)
                   case element() return element {node-name(.)} { @* ! $f(.),
node()!pxp:transform(., $f, $options) }
                   case document-node() return document {  node() !
pxp:transform(., $f, $options) }
                   default return .
              ) else . )
}              
pxp:transform($root as item()*, $f as function(*)) as item()* {
pxp:transform($root, $f, {}) }
pxp:transform($f as function(*)) as item()* { pxp:transform(., $f, {}) }


That is quite useful to perform a map/filter over all nodes in a document. 
E.g. For example transform(/, function($x) { if (name($x) = "a") then
<a>{$x/@*, <b>{$x/node()}</b>}</a> else $x } ) to make all a-links bold; or 
transform(/, function($x) { if (name($x) = "a") then () else $x } ) to remove
them.

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