RE: XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1 - a crazy i

> The "Crazy Idea" thread from September 1999 came up with some
> interesting ideas for allowing extension functions in XSLT 
> itself 
> > 
> > Something like:
> > 
> > <xsl:function name="reverse" namespace:fn="www.redrice.com">

Take a look at <saxon:function> in the current release of Saxon, which does
just this.
 
> The trouble with that is that functions would only be able to return
> result tree fragments.

The <saxon:function> extension returns a value using <saxon:return>, so the
return value can be of any XPath data type.

Mike Kay
> 


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