RE: Newbie question with XSL and functions

> 
> I am new to using XSL and have a question.  I have a 
> conversion that I need
> to do over and over again on a certain type of data through-out my
> stylesheet.  I was wondering if there is a concept of a 
> function in XSL ...  The conversion I need to do is to
> transform a decimal degrees value to a degrees:minutes:second format.
>
Two options: if the conversion can be expressed reasonably easily in XSLT
then write a named template, otherwise call an external function written
e.g. in Java or Javascript: the details then depend on your choice of XSLT
processor.

Mike Kay


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