Re: [xml] support for xslt functions in xmllint schematron?

["Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor apache org>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   Some of them are fairly tied to the XSLT infrastructure
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#add-func
> and clearly key() for example would not be reusable in that context.
> I would not be able to add them to basic libxml2 XPath, it really should
> only see the normal XPath-1.0 function (or if xslt with a namespace
> which would just not work with direct generate-id() use). Those would
> have to be copied in the schematron module and registered when creating
> the validation context' XPath context.
>
>   So which functions ?

i found this reference on the schematron list:

http://eccnet.eccnet.com/pipermail/schematron-love-in/2006-June/000083.html

>>>
> It is unclear to me now, from an ivory tower perspective, if it
> includes document() since that is an XSLT function and not XPath.
> When I think of "extended version of XPath" I think of things like
> actions on result-tree-fragment variables and the current() function,
> not the document() function. Since the phrase "extended version of
> XPath" is undefined, I wonder if this should be clarified in a future
> technical corrigendum (TC) of the now-published standard.

I find that perfectly clear and interpret the statement as XPath plus
all the functions defined in XSLT 1.0 as "additional functions" at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#add-func
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out of these, i have seen current() and generate-id() used in schematron 
files i have used.

-gregor

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