RE: Exsl functions in xslt 2

> change the top level xsl:stylesheet to say version="2.0"
> and add:
> 
> <xsl:function  name="msxsl:node-set" as="document-node()"> 
> <xsl:param name="x"/> <xsl:sequence select="$x"/> </xsl:function>
> 
> saxon6 and msxml will process in forward-compatible mode and 
> that will be OK, saxon 7 will define this function as an identity.

Done, Saxon 6.5.3 and MSXML 4 still work fine thanks.


> It will process in native xslt2 mode which may or may not be 
> OK, depending on what you are doing, you may need to persuade 
> it back to backward compatibility mode if that can be done 
> without harming compatibility. (One way woul dbe to _only-) 
> have the above definition in the top level xslt2 stylesheet 
> and have taht stylesheet import or include the previous 
> stylesheet that has a top level version=1.0.

I tried this but of course got problems with data typing.  I tried
having a stylesheet with version="2.0" import a stylesheet with
version="1.0" and vice versa, but both produced the same set of errors
(with Saxon 7.8).

There were only 2 types of error, they were:

  Required type of first argument of format-number() is number; supplied
value has type xs:string

  and

  Required type of first argument of concat() is xs:string; supplied
value has type xs:integer

So for example I changed:

<xsl:value-of
select="format-number(substring($figureDigits,1,2),'#0')"/>

To:

<xsl:value-of
select="format-number(xs:integer(substring($figureDigits,1,2)),'#0')"/>

And added these function definitions:

<exsltf:function name="xs:integer">
  <xsl:param name="x"/>
  <exsltf:result select="$x"/>
</exsltf:function>

<exsltf:function name="xs:string">
  <xsl:param name="x"/>
  <exsltf:result select="$x"/>
</exsltf:function>

....but msxml4 complains about the 'xs:' namespace.

Any ideas?

ahanks
andrew

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