Re: justify or remove aliases: base-uri, resolve-uri

On 15 Sep 2008, at 09:54, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Dan Connolly writes:
>
>> Whether they are aliases of XPath 1.0 or XPath 2.0 functions
>> makes no difference; they're still aliases.
>
> I think perhaps you misunderstood.  There _is no_ XPath 1.0 function
> which has the relevant behaviour.  So we have defined an extension
> function _for XPath 1.0_ whose functionality is defined to be the
> XPath 1.0 equivalent of an XPath 2.0 function.


Perhaps Dan's point is that we should use the XPath 2.0 function  
namespace (http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions) for those functions  
rather than co-opting them into our own namespace.

Jeni
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Received on Monday, 15 September 2008 10:35:59 UTC