- From: Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 23:07:13 +0100
- To: public-xslt-40@w3.org
Hi Morten, This issue might already address your request: https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/540 Gerrit On 04.12.2023 21:51, Morten Wittrock wrote: > Hi everybody > > I'm new to the list and the community group. I hope I'm not violating etiquette by diving right in :-) > > I'd like to solicit opinions on a possible new XPath function. What I have in mind is a function similar to XSLT's fn:system-property function. I.e. a function that lets you retrieve information about the XPath engine at runtime like vendor, product, version etc. > > In an environment where you control the entire stack, this is obviously not very interesting, but in, e.g., a cloud environment, where XPath functionality is embedded in a hosted development tool, this would be useful information. > > I work in the system and application integration area, and many integration platforms offer an XSLT processor as an option for message translation. I find it very useful indeed to be able to, for instance, track updates to the processor, that the platform vendor might not mention in release notes etc. > > I think this would be meaningful information to have about XPath engines as well. For now I'd just like to gauge the interest, so do let me know if I'm the only person who thinks this would be interesting ;-) > > Thank you and regards, > > Morten Wittrock
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