An application I’m working on needs to be able to
evaluate XPath 1.0 expressions. In
addition to the standard XPath core functions, we need to introduce an
application-specific function that retrieves a value from a data structure
internal to the app. Lets call it ‘getvalue()’. This value could be a String, Boolean or
Number. Would it be a violation of
XPath practices for this ‘getvalue()’
function to be an overloaded function, returning String, Number and Boolean (e.g.
three functions: string getvalue(), boolean getvalue(), number getvalue())? My alternative would be to use unique
function names such as getstring(), getboolean() and getnumber()...
