On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Eliot Kimber ekimber(_at_)contrext(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
For the most part my functions
are relatively simple and except for one that uses analyze-string, they
are all implemented XPath expressions that will work as written in XQuery.
The <xsl:analyze-string> instruction now has its analogue as an XSLT
3.0 function: analyze-string(),
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#func-analyze-string
As for "translating" XSLT functions to XQuery functions, this may not
be generally possible, especially in the cases when the source
functions use functionality that is absent in XQuery, such as applying
templates.
If one writes their functions as XPath 3.0 inline function items, then
these are immediately usable both from XSLT and from XQuery, and from
any other language that hosts XPath 3.0. I would recommend this
approach, especially for writing future functions. Among other
benefits, one achieves a single and non-redundant source, that is used
by many hosting languages.
More on writing XPath 3.0 functions, and generally on XPath
programming, can be found here:
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Novatchev01/BalisageVol10-Novatchev01.html
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