• 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
  • Working with Templates
  • Using an External XSLT Processor
  • Postprocessing Result Documents
  • Generating Formatting Objects
  • Generating Scalable Vector Graphics
  • 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: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 14: Stylus Studio Reference

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Declaring an XSLT Extension Function

Extension functions must have one of the following signatures:

public Object FxnName()
       
public Object FxnName(Type1 var1, Type2 var2,...)
       
public static Object FxnName()
       
public static Object FxnName(Type1 var1, Type2 var2,...)
       

    

A class that contains an extension function might look like the following:

import org.w3c.dom.*;
               
public class NumberUtils
               
{ 
               

              

                
public Object Average(NodeList nl)
                   
{
                   
double nSum = 0;
                   

                
              
	for (int i = nl.getLength() - 1; i >= 0; i--)
               

              

                
{
                   
	nSum += 
                   
	Double.valueOf(nl.item(i).
                   
	getNodeValue()).doubleValue();
                   
}
                   
return new Double(nSum / nl.getLength());
                   
}
                   

                
              
}