9571 2010-04-21 15:07:45 +0000 There is no zero-arity node-name() function 2011-06-08 11:43:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Functions and Operators 3.0 Working drafts PC Windows NT CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mike mike jonathan.robie public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 35184 0 mike 2010-04-21 15:07:45 +0000 The node-name() function is anomalous. Other functions that return a property of a node, for example base-uri(), name(), local-name(), namespace-uri(), generate-id(), string() have a zero-arity form that takes the context item as the implicit first argument. Some other functions that do this: number(), string-length(), normalize-space(). node-name() might be expected to follow this pattern, but doesn't. Similarly, though perhaps with less usability impact, document-uri() and data(). We ought to be consistent. 35185 1 mike 2010-04-21 15:09:41 +0000 root() is another one that DOES have a zero-arity variant (proving that it's not only a design that was adopted for 1.0 functions and abandoned in 2.0). 35189 2 jonathan.robie 2010-04-21 17:46:20 +0000 I agree - we should allow this for node-name(),document-uri(), and data(). 41923 3 mike 2010-11-01 17:09:00 +0000 According to my records this we agreed on 2010-05-14 to add zero-argument forms of the three functions node-name(), data(), and document-uri(), and I am therefore closing this belatedly as FIXED/RESOLVED.