& XSLT Why should this be *an extension function* ?

It is *most regular* XSLT 1.0 functionality to provide a match pattern in 
the "match" attribute of xsl:template

Also, in my 7 years od monitoring the xsl-list this is the first time such a 
feature request has occured -- therefore the question to ask is what are any 
possible use-cases for he proposed extenion function?

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL



""John L. Clark"" <jlc6@[...].edu>  wrote in message 
news:4fb69e5d0701220710n6a3547f2w666b4f0e32237583@[...]..
> 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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