Re: Problem with passing argument to external register

On 4/17/06, Jesper Noehr <jesper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This works:
> <xsl:value-of select="foo:bar('test')"/>
>
> This doesn't:
> <xsl:value-of select="foo:bar(element/.)"/>
>
> Is it not possible to give XPath expressions as argument?

Saxon 8.7.1 is working fine with XPath expressions as argument. I
think this is a proprietary feature of XSLT processors, and is not
specified in XSLT/XPath specs.

> What am I doing wrong? Am I trying to go beyond the capabilities of
> XSLT?

You are not doing anything wrong. Its just that libxslt seems to not
support passing parameters like this.

Regards,
Mukul

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