>>>>> "Abel" == Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Abel> And indeed, then people don't have to bind
    Abel> themselves to their own host language but everyone can use
    Abel> the same language for extensions, which is a much better
    Abel> design choice than the awkward suggestions I was making
    Abel> earlier.
    >> 
    >> That's sounds like a possibility.  Would it suit a PHP
    >> programmer?
    >> 

surely it will, esp. because most PHP programmers write for the
    Abel> internet and this usually requires ecmascript/javascript
    Abel> skills: it is familiar already.

But is it useful?

What will the programer be able to do that (s)he cannot do with
xsl:function?

If using the host language, I can envisage various answers, but Javascript?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire