& XSLT Could you describe some use-cases you have in mind? Perhaps I'm being
dense, but I don't see the general application.... Typically I would do
similar things by qualifying the template's match parameter, but I can
imagine there might be cases where that's not feasible.

Steve

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: "John L. Clark" [mailto:jlc6@[...].edu] 
>  Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:10 AM
>  To: list@[...].org
>  Subject: [exslt] Proposal: has-name-match()
>  
>  I propose a new EXSLT function that might be called 
>  `has-name-match()`.  The signature for this function would be 
>  similar to the following:
>  
>    boolean has-name-match(node-set a, node-set b, integer distance?)
>  
>  This function would examine the first node of both a and b 
>  and determine if the name of each element on the 
>  ancestor-or-self axis for each of these nodes is the same, up 
>  to distance from each node.  More precisely, 
>  `has-name-match()` returns true if and only if
>  (local-name(a) = local-name(b) and namespace-uri(a) = 
>  namespace-uri(b) and has-name-match(a/.., b/.., distance - 1)).
>  
>  Thoughts?
>  
>  Take care,
>  
>      John L. Clark
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