I found some information at,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency.

I agree to your observation ...

Thanks Colin.

On Nov 8, 2007 2:23 PM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi