Re: [Exist-development] default context in functions

[James F. <jam...@ex...>]

On 21 July 2010 13:37, Dmitriy Shabanov <sha...@gm...> wrote:
> Note: There are functions like fn:string or fn:base-uri that "... In the
> zero-argument version of the function, $arg defaults to the context
> item. That is, calling fn:string() is equivalent to calling
> fn:string(.). ..."
>
> The question "why" didn't get answer ...

yes, we could suggest to xquery WG that user defined functions might
have a similar shorthand
but there are probs with this route as well.

James Fuller