Subject: RE: [xsl] A list of useful functions that aren't in the core of xsl. From: "bryan" <bry@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:10:56 +0100 |
This is because they(the fxsl stylesheets) depend on a node-set() function which is an extension function under xslt 1.0 Exslt has a node-set() function in the exsl namespace so that one could be processor independent, at least if processors used support exsl. The native xalan node-set() function is named nodeset() if I remember correctly (I keep saying that cause it's a hell of a long time since I used xalan), which means that it is not name-compatible with others. Most processors have node-set() so that if what one needs to do is just use node-sets one can have the following ns:node-set($mynode) and then bind the ns prefix to whichever node-set implementation one wants. Fxsl could have used fallbacks etc., I suppose, to make it all processor independent, not sure why this wasn't done other than not wasting processing power. -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:37 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [xsl] A list of useful functions that aren't in the core of xsl. On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, bryan wrote: > > http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.exslt.org/ > > these are complimentary. Fxsl implements functions in xslt, exslt > defines a list of functions and implementation guidelines so that one > can have extention functions not otherwise in the core. Saxon and if I > remember correctly Xalan both implement the exslt core functions. having just looked at the FXSL sourceforge site, i'm intrigued by the fact that there are three different .zip files; for MS, Saxon and Xalan, respectively. i'm just about to take a look at FXSL, but is there some reason that functions written in XSLT would need to be processor dependent? curious. rday XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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