kesh...@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Conceptually the changes would all be local to xsl:variable. But  I find
> myself nervous about whether and how they would propagate through the
> rest of the system -- whether we might wind up relaxing typechecking
> elsewhere and losing some of the strength of error detection.

Allowing references to arbitrary objects to be stored in variables is a
powerful thing indeed. Should be possible even now through the use of
extension functions instead of extension elkements. There are some
issues though, e.g. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1847

Greetings,
 Martin von Gagern

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