Re: [xsl] Daisy chaining XSLT and also how can I check whether the XSLT processor supports a specific extension (specifically, ext:node-set)?

["David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

seems like only yesterday on this list I advertised

http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/2007/05/exslt-node-set-function.html

to make exslt:node-set work seamlessly on systems that supported it and
systems that had a similar function in a different namespace

David (a greyer version)



On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 16:48, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On 07/08/2024 17:36, ohaya ohaya@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
>
> From those threads above, it sounds like what I thinking of doing is
> POSSIBLE, but one of the requirements is the availability of an extension:
>
> ext:node-set
>
> So I wanted to find out:
>
> a) How can I check that the XSLT processor supports that extension?  Is
> there like a small XSLT that I can test that would tell me whether or not
> the XSLT processor that is running the XSLT supports that ext:node-set
> extension?
>
>
> Use https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-10/#function-function-available to check
> from within XSLT if a certain function is available.
>
> Most XSLT 1.0 processors support exsl:node-set in the namespace
> http://exslt.org/common, with the exception of older Microsoft products
> like MSXML or XslTransform which instead support a node-set extension
> function in a Microsoft namespace.
>
> Not sure about Xalan, I think the Java product has support for a Xalan
> specific namespace as well as the EXSLT namespace.
>
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