Re: [xslt] extension modules

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 06:34:40AM +0200, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> OK, that's mostly done.

  Great :-)

> Here's a list of some of the changes:
>   · added function lookup framework to libxml/XPath and used it in libxslt
>     and modified the extension element lookup in the same way (look for
>     the element in the context, then in the global registry)

  Not sure I understand this one. can you give me the names of the functions ?

  Everything else sounds fine. 

> What's still needed:
>   · correct handling of extension-element-prefixes and
>     exclude-result-prefixes. extension-element-prefixes may need binding
>     data to the _private field of *every* element node (even literal
>     result elements)

   Hum, that part is complex. Tell exactly what you need and I will check.
I took great care of not destroying performances to handle those and this
requires a lot of attention to get right.
   In general if you start adding data or processing for each node at
run time then thwin twice and ask first :-)

> With these changes, I already succeeded in making EXSLT - Functions to work
> correctly (or at least it *seems* to work correctly)

  sounds great

> I also found (and fixed) some bugs

   even better :-)

Daniel

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