• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
  • Getting Started with XSLT
  • Tutorial: Understanding How Templates Work
  • Working with Stylesheets
  • Creating Stylesheets That Generate HTML
  • Specifying Extension Functions in Stylesheets
    • Using an Extension Function in Stylus Studio
    • Basic Data Types
    • Declaring an XSLT Extension Function
    • Working with XPath Data Types
    • Declaring an Extension Function Namespace
    • Invoking Extension Functions
    • Finding Classes and Finding Java
    • Debugging Stylesheets That Contain Extension Functions
  • Working with Templates
  • Using Third-Party XSLT Processors
  • Validating Result Documents
  • Post-processing Result Documents
  • Generating Formatting Objects
  • Generating Scalable Vector Graphics
  • Generating Java Code for XSLT
  • XSLT Instructions Quick Reference
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Working with XPath Data Types

The XPath types Boolean and Number can map either to the corresponding Java primitive types or to the corresponding Java object types. If the XPath processor is looking for a function that accepts XPath parameters 3.2 and true, it looks first for a function that accepts (double, boolean) and then (Double, Boolean). Functions that accept some combination of primitive types and object types are not recognized by the XPath processor.

The XPath processor determines the actual return type of a function at run time. For example, the XPath processor treats the return type of the function in the preceding section as an XPath Number because the object it returns is an instance of the Java class Double. You must declare all functions to return type Object, regardless of the actual type of the return value.