Re: EXSLT extension function

Hi Chris,

you did import the exslt date stylesheet, didn't you?
(I don't see it in your fragment):
<xsl:import href="date.xsl" />

If you didn't, your stylesheet will know nothing about the named extension 
templates (in other words, you're calling templates that don't exist)

But I suppose you did import it... Then take a look at your template calls:

  <xsl:call-template name="date:hour-in-day"/>

You are calling the template with no parameters! How can the template
know what date/time you want to extract the hours of?

You will need something like:

  <xsl:call-template name="date:hour-in-day">
    <xsl:with-param name="date-time" select="$date-str"/>
  </xsl:call-template>

If you want the current system time, you will need to call the
appropriate function "date:date-time()". 

(see http://www.exslt.org/date/functions/date-time/index.html)

HTH,
Anton Triest


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Loschen" <closchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:24 PM
Subject:  EXSLT extension function


> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm trying to pull in the system time (I'll want the date as well, but one 
> thing at a time...)
> to my XSLT stylesheet. It looked like the EXSLT functions had just what I 
> need, and
> they're supposedly supported by my XSLT processor (Xalan-J 2.6). But I'm 
> getting this
> error:
> 
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: ElemTemplateElement error: 
> date:hour-in-day
> 
> I might have the namespace wrong or perhaps I'm not calling the extension 
> function
> correctly? I've done a Google search without finding anything. Anybody have any
> ideas? Thanks!
> 
> Here is a fragment of the stylesheet (I know it's not well-formed -- I'm 
> just copying the relevant section):
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>          xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times"
>          extension-element-prefixes="date">
> 
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" omit-xml-declaration="yes" 
> indent="yes" />
> 
> <xsl:template match="BillHeader">
>          <xsl:variable name="time">
>                  <xsl:variable name="hours">
>                          <xsl:call-template name="date:hour-in-day"/>
>                  </xsl:variable>
>                  <xsl:variable name="minutes">
>                          <xsl:call-template name="date:minute-in-hour"/>
>                  </xsl:variable>
>                  <xsl:value-of select="concat($hours,$minutes)"/>
>          </xsl:variable>
> 
> etc.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Chris Loschen
> closchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 781-718-3017 (cell)