Re: [Gestalt-users] New extension function

[Florent G. <dar...@ya...>]

Colin Adams wrote:

> That's not possible for a number of reasons.

  Ok.

> If you want to do this, then you can write a transformation to
> generate your required stylesheet and serialize it to a
> destination named by a URI.

  Yes, sure.

> >   Also, maybe a gexslt:transform-error() function could be
> > interesting to return the error given the result of the
> > transformation.  It is more
> > clear than testing that the N-th item is a QName, isn't it?  If the
> > transformation is successfull, this function returns the empty
> > sequence.

> And if it isn't successful? It can only return the same
> sequence as now.
> So you can write this as an xsl:function if you wish.

  Yes, sure.  It thought about having an abstraction behind the return
type on failing.  But your question is pertinent: to abstract a return
type, writing a function that return the same sequence is not really
usefull.  Maybe a predicate is-successfull(), but the gain is little.

  Regards,

--drkm
























	

	
		
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