Re: [Gestalt-users] New extension function

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

>>>>> "Frans" == Frans Englich <fra...@te...> writes:

    Frans> * It gives at least a small hint what
    Frans> a flag does. "c" for "caching", for example.

A hint that might well be mis-leading. Caching is on by default.

    Frans> I fail to see the advantages with booleans. Could you
    Frans> enlighten?

Yes. true() means non-default behaviour.

    Frans> (Indeed, but it doesn't hurt designing things so others can
    Frans> adopt it, and hence increase chances for portability. Also,
    Frans> perhaps this will move to EXSL-T at somepoint, and then it
    Frans> can be done without changing your and others
    Frans> implementations.)

I suppose that might happen, but the namespace at least would have to
change. And the name and return types are not the same as saxon:transform.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire