Subject: Re: Accessing context from xsl:function body
From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:23:57 +0530
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Hi Colin,
What exactly do you mean by 'referential transparency'?
I guess, the named template in XSLT 2.0 is able to access the context,
for backward compatibility reason. Is it true..?
On Nov 8, 2007 2:06 PM, Colin Adams <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If a function could access the context, then it could also change it.
> hen referential transparency would be lost.
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> If you need particular pieces of information from the context (such as
> the position, or item), then you could pass them to the function as
> paramters.
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
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