Re: [xsl] Help creating and calling xsl:functions

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Scarvie" <wscarvie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:45 PM
Subject: [xsl] Help creating and calling xsl:functions


> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble getting even basic uses of xsl:function to work in my 
> browsers.  I'm using this sample code, from 
> http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2003/09/03/trxml.html:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>  xmlns:foo="http://whatever";>
>
>  <!-- Compare two strings ignoring case, returning same
>       values as compare(). -->
>  <xsl:function name="foo:compareCI">
>    <xsl:param name="string1"/>
>    <xsl:param name="string2"/>
>    <xsl:value-of 
> select="compare(upper-case($string1),upper-case($string2))"/>
>  </xsl:function>
>
>  <xsl:template match="/">
> compareCI red,blue: <xsl:value-of select="foo:compareCI('red','blue')"/>
> compareCI red,red: <xsl:value-of select="foo:compareCI('red','red')"/>
> compareCI red,Red: <xsl:value-of select="foo:compareCI('red','Red')"/>
> compareCI red,Yellow: <xsl:value-of 
> select="foo:compareCI('red','Yellow')"/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I create a "dummy" XML document, using this stylesheet, as follows:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="fn_test.xsl" ?>
>
> <test_tag>Nothing to see here</test_tag>
>
> When using Firefox 1.5.0.1, I get the following error when I try to open 
> the XML file in the browser:
>
>          Error during XSLT transformation: An unknown XPath extension 
> function was called.
>
> When using IE 6.0, I get the following error:
>
>          Namespace 'http://whatever' does not contain any functions.
>
> Any idea why I'm not getting function calls to work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Will
Neither IE nor Firefox support version XSLT 2.0.
One way to do this would be to transform using Saxon, either Java or .NET, 
possibly on the server.

Joe