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Re: RE: Namespace use cases

• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:15:48 -0700

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Michael Kay<mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, the HOF implementation uses namespaces as it would use any
available GUID mechanism.


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