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RE: XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1 - a crazy idea?
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- Subject: RE: XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1 - a crazy idea?
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:49:14 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> The "Crazy Idea" thread from September 1999 came up with some
> interesting ideas for allowing extension functions in XSLT
> itself
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > <xsl:function name="reverse" namespace:fn="www.redrice.com">
Take a look at <saxon:function> in the current release of Saxon, which does
just this.
> The trouble with that is that functions would only be able to return
> result tree fragments.
The <saxon:function> extension returns a value using <saxon:return>, so the
return value can be of any XPath data type.
Mike Kay
>
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