Re: [xml-dev] XPath +/- etc not first class functions

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

Add() and Subtract() have been part of FXSL
(http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/) since 2001.

There are a lot of other useful functions in FXSL (corresponding to
almost all functions in Haskell's Prelude module)  that aren't defined
in the XPath/XQuery FO standard.

I must find some time to produce FXSL 3 -- now when its use would be
most easy in conjunction with XPath 3.

Cheers,
Dimitre

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com> wrote:
> The examples at
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-fold-left
>
> would seem to suggest that primitives such as + and - cannot be passed as
> values.
>
> Correct?



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