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Bug 19285 - function-lookup() is a bit verbose
Summary: function-lookup() is a bit verbose
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XPath 3.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Working drafts
Hardware: PC All
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Robie
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2012-10-05 11:03 UTC by Andrew Welch
Modified: 2012-10-05 11:36 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Welch 2012-10-05 11:03:35 UTC 
Hi,

The function-lookup() function name is a bit too long and unwieldy eg

fold-left(function-lookup($my-qname, 2).....

Is it possible to also have a shorthand version of just f() ?  

fold-left(f($my-qname, 2).....

...or some other single character symbol?

thanks
andrew
Comment 1 Michael Kay 2012-10-05 11:33:19 UTC 
Try

<xsl:variable name="f" select="function-lookup#2"/>


then

fold-left($f($my-qname, 2))
Comment 2 Andrew Welch 2012-10-05 11:36:51 UTC 
heh, great... thanks : )