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Re: Functional programming in XSLT (revised)
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Functional programming in XSLT (revised)
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:31:12 +0000
- CC: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com, "'Alexey Gokhberg'" <alexei at bluewin dot ch>
- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Mike,
> Having said that, I made saxon:function available at the top-level
> only, because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life explaining
> the concept of local functions, and juistifying why they should have
> access to local variables declared outside the function body.
Would you mind doing it just once? I hadn't really considered the
possibility of local exsl:function before, and would like to
understand what its implications would be if we were to introduce it.
Thanks,
Jeni
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