RE: Types and Context

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>]

> > But it would be more extensible if we had a way of matching *all*
> > elements of the this:person type instead:
> > 
> >   <xsl:template match="*[xs:type('this:person')]">
> >      ...
> >   </xsl:template>
> 
> Exactly - this also covers the symmetrical (but I hope less frequent)
> case where elemements of different types have the same name (which XML
> Schema permits as long as they are not in the same content model).

So, from a practical perspective, when would you want to use this? What
application requires such functionality?