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Dimitre Novatchev wrote: >>In fact, I think the function you want is: >> >><xsl:function name="type:is-number" as="xs:boolean"> >> <xsl:param name="arg" as="xs:string"/> >> <xsl:sequence select="matches($arg, '\d+')"/> >></xsl:function> >> >> > >This does not say what the type of the argument, originally passed to >the function was. > > *absolutely* >It might have been a string that is the string representation of a number: > > "3.1415" (is a string) > >but this is completely different from: > > 3.1415 (is a number). > >What will really be useful is a function with an argument of item(), >that returns the real type of the argument. > > agreed >This would be trivial to achieve if same-arity function overloading was allowed. > >Does anybody know of another way? > >Or shall we propose an exslt:type-of() ? > > dont know....I would like to think that the XSLT 2.0 draft is still open to some last minute changes... cheers, Jim Fuller
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