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Re: [xsl] XQuery Function Annotations... and XSLT

2019-01-12 13:51:24
I am not familiar with XQuery annotations, but in case one needs to
have XPath functions together with other data that is relevant to
them, one way (very schematic -- can further be refined) is to have:

map {
          'Func1Descriptor' : map {
                                                  'annotation': someAnnotation,
                                                  'function': theFunction
                                                 },
          'Func2Descriptor' : map {
                                                  'annotation': someAnnotation,
                                                  'function': theFunction
                                                 },

        .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
        }

Or one can even make the function be only accessible via the
annotation -- which in this case will itself be a map, one of whose
entries' value will be the function.

map {
          'Func1Descriptor' : map {
                                                  'annotation':  map {
'meta':someAnnotationMatter,

          'function': theFunction

         }
                                                 },
         'Func2Descriptor' : map {
                                                  'annotation':  map {
'meta':someAnnotationMatter,

          'function': theFunction

         }
                                                 },
        .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
        }

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:25 AM Adam Retter 
adam(_dot_)retter(_at_)googlemail(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

Does anyone know if there is something similar in XSLT to XQuery 3.0's
Annotations?

I am developing a set of XPath functions, which produce functions.
These produced functions can benefit from being treated in a certain
manner by a processor.

I was thinking of using custom Annotations to label the produced
functions, so that a processor would have more information about how
they should be evaluated. Unfortunately I just realised that
Annotations are defined in the XQuery spec, not the lower XPath spec
(as I had assumed).

Is there anything equivalent for functions (produced by functions) in XSLT?

p.s. I will crosspost to the x-query/talk list as this seems relevant to both.

Thanks Adam.
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