An application I’m working on needs to be able to
evaluate XPath 1.0 expressions.In
addition to the standard XPath core functions, we need to introduce an
application-specific function that retrieves a value from a data structure
internal to the app.Lets call it ‘getvalue()’.This value could be a String, Boolean or
Number.Would it be a violation of
XPath practices for this ‘getvalue()’
function to be an overloaded function, returning String, Number and Boolean (e.g.
three functions: string getvalue(), boolean getvalue(), number getvalue())?My alternative would be to use unique
function names such as getstring(), getboolean() and getnumber()...
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