RE: Convert String to (node-set)

You are right and I did try out the Xalan 2 extensions. Here is a snippet
of the XSL code just FYI.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl
="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xalan
="http://xml.apache.org/xalan" exclude-result-prefixes="xalan">
  <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:variable name="npath" select="." />
      <xsl:value-of select="xalan:evaluate($npath)" />
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



                                                                                                                                 
                    "Michael Kay"                                                                                                
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> So, the obvious Q is, how do I integrate a SAXON extension
> fn. when I want
> to use XALAN (LAtest release, 2.0) from my JAVA program.

I think that almost all the Saxon built-in extension functions are written
to make use of internal Saxon interfaces, so they won't work with a
different processor.

But the good news is that Xalan-Java 2 has its own implementations of some
of the extension functions that were previously only in Saxon, for example
there appears to be a xalan:evaluate().

I think it should be possible, though I haven't proved it, to write your
stylesheet to use xx:evaluate(), and map xx to the Saxon extension function
in a <saxon:script> element (just introduced in Saxon 6.2), and to the
Xalan
extension function in <xalan:script>, so that the stylesheet works with
either processor.

Mike Kay


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