What would you have these functions return for anonymous function items?
---------------------------------------- David A. Lee [email protected] http://www.xmlsh.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of James Fuller > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 7:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [xquery-talk] functions in XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0 > > as http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-30/#other-items states the > xpath data model has matured and needs to add 'other types' ... which > have no xml serializations > > following on from this statement, I am wondering if the XQuery WG has > considered what could be returned in the following scenario: > > let $a := fn:position#0 > return > fn:string($a) > > it maybe nice to return the name of the function "fn:position" as a > string ... conversely, > > let $a := fn:position#0 > return > fn:QName($a) > > would return the qname of the function. > > its probably a stretch to extend this to function arity eg. > > let $a := fn:position#0 > return > xs:integer($a) > > which would return a value of 0. > > it may also be useful to expand the description of what functions are > in the data model via fully describing the term 'callable' here > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-30/#other-items. > > James Fuller > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
