Re: [xsl] xsl:function

[Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mac,

> Yup, very confused. So, here is the bare bones xsl that I am trying.
> I'm using the msxml 4.0 processor. There are no files located at
> http://magusdesigns.com/namespace. It's sounds like there don't need
> to be any file there, right?

You're defining the functions with <func:function> from EXSLT. MSXML
doesn't support any EXSLT extension functions or elements, so it
simply doesn't recognise <func:function> and therefore doesn't create
a function definition in the way a processor that *does* recognise
<func:function> would.

If you want to create a user-defined function in MSXML, you have to
use <msxsl:script> and write the function in
JavaScript/VBScript/JScript. For example:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:my="http://magusdesigns.com/namespace";
                xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<msxsl:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="my">
  function test() {
    return 1;
  }
</msxsl:script>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:value-of select="my:test()" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Alternatively, you can use a processor that does support
<func:function> such as Saxon, Xalan, 4XSLT or libxslt.

Cheers,

Jeni

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