Re: [xsl] RE: Designs for XSLT functions

[David.Rosenborg@xxxxxxxxxx]

Michael Kay wrote:

> Far too restrictive; it doesn't allow you to do any processing of node-sets
> that can't be done by standard functions, for example it wouldn't allow you
> to implement max() and min().

Hmh, I think you missed my point about having a conditional
construct in XPath.

<xsl:function name="my:max">
  <xsl:param name="nl"/>
  <xsl:variable name="first" select="nl [1]"/>
  <xsl:variable name="max-of-rest"
     select="if (nl [2], my:max (nl [position () > 1]), /..)"/>
  <xsl:result select="if ($max-of-rest,
                          if ($first > $max-of-rest, $first, $max-of-rest),
                          $first)"/>
</xsl:function>

Cheers,

</David>


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list