Mike Kay feedback on xsl:function/@override

• From: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:42:56 -0700
• To: public-forms@w3.org
• Cc: public-xformsusers@w3.org
• Message-ID: <CAAc0PEWjv1og=3t+R-ape-gcDB-aS6JjuaogPVAJc+6tBytgtw@mail.gmail.com>

All,

Mike Kay has kindly confirmed that @override in XSLT only allows
overriding extension functions (xsl:function-defined or native
extension functions), and not standard functions (such as
format-dateTime()).

He also mentions the following: "I've seen very little usage of it,
perhaps because there isn't a vibrant community of open source XSLT
2.0 implementations. It was intended for the EXSLT scenario where
there's an XSLT implementation of a third-party extension function,
which vendors can replace with a native implementation, and it allows
users to choose which should take precedence."

At this point I am not convinced that we need @override in XForms 2.

-Erik

Received on Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:54:04 UTC