• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Dimitre Novatchev'" <dnovatchev@g...>,"'Jim Tivy'" <jimt@b...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:07:59 +0100

> The implementation of Higher Order Functions (HOF) in XSLT (1.0 or
> 2.0) would not have been possible if the namespace mechanism 
> was not available.

I think you mean "some kind of namespace mechanism". The current namespace
mechanism is probably better than having none at all, but it still has many
serious problems.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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