Re: [Gestalt-users] [ gestalt-Bugs-1563054]gexslt:transformation()and namespace

[Colin A. <col...@ho...>]

>From: Florent Georges <dar...@ya...>

>   But I think it is a feature, not a bug.  Or say a design
>choice: it is not possible to test the availability of a
>stylesheet function.  I guess it is to simplify
>implementations, to give them a possibility of optimization.
>
>   Because at the compile time, when the processor treat the
>@use-when, it has not already seen all stylesheet functions.
>So it'd have to perform a second pass to compile or not the
>branches depending on function-available().  But I said I
>guess; you know that better than me.

I guess you are right.

Now the question is, does the spec allow me to return true for my extension 
functions, and yet still disallow them within use-when?

It seems not.
I am going to raise this on the W3C list, to check.

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