Re: [xml] XPath functions ignoring their name

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:17:41AM +0200, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I explained in the xslt list, I need a way of retrieving the name of the
> currently called XPath function since I have a single function answering
> calls for multiple XPath functions (this is for the EXSLT - Functions
> implementation).

  Hum, right, I see what you mean, something like self() in OO languages.

> It seems impossible: the parser context doesn't keep track of the current
> xmlXPathStepOp

  Right,

> Can I add a pointer to the current xmlXPathSetOp, or its index in the
> comp->steps list, or directly to the function name and namespace URI (which
> of the three should I prefer?), in the xmlXPathParserContext?

  If this is just needed at compilation time, I would prefer to have
it added at the end of xmlXPathParserContext.

Daniel

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