RE: Yet Another V2 Request: Extension Functions via XSLT 2

See also a similar request in an older thread on xproc-dev:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xproc-dev/2012Jan/0023.html

There is, I believe, also a similar entry in the XProcVNext wiki.

But what about simply allowing to use XProc steps as XPath extension functions? That seems like a more robust and idiomatic solution than introducing "magic" mechanisms for native importing of XSLT/XQuery/whatnot modules.

Regards,
Vojtech

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Fuller [mailto:jim@webcomposite.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 7:31 AM
> To: Alex Milowski
> Cc: XProc WG
> Subject: Re: Yet Another V2 Request: Extension Functions via XSLT 2
> 
> On 8 August 2013 02:36, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com> wrote:
> > Let me explain the use case a bit better.  I have documents that are
> > typed, often on the root element, with specific RDFa types.  The
> > derived type is computed against the @vocab attribute (and others)
> > along with the @typeof attribute.  I want to expose an extension
> > function so I can do something like this:
> >
> > <p:choose>
> > <p:when test="rdfa:is-type(/*,'http://example.com/Book')">
> 
> > So, I really just want a way in p:library to declare these functions.
> > I could imagine just importing an XSLT library directly but I wonder
> > whether that is technical feasible given existing implementations.
> 
> its an interesting idea and I think it would leverage other XML
> technologies reuse mechanisms. In MarkLogic land, allowing XSLT to
> import xquery modules proves to be a big winner and I suspect the
> reverse would be true as well.
> 
> We could consider overloading p:import to be able to load in functions,
> in the scope of the current pipeline or a p:import in a p:library. Heck
> ... why not javascript as well or whatever else an impl may decide ? We
> could add a content-type attribute as the means for unambiguously
> identifying function library.
> 
> For example, with the xproc impl I am working on, it would be
> straightforward to load in xquery modules whose functions could be made
> available, though I don't know how this would work with XSLT and would
> have to tinker about calabash/saxon as an example to fully understand
> how an impl would achieve this.
> 
>  J
>

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