I'm OK with this if Gary is.
-scott
Erwin Bolwidt
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Subject: Mangling hyphen characters in
extension elements and
07/05/2001 functions
02:35 PM
Please
respond to
xalan-dev
Hello,
I have made a patch that will allow you to write Java extension
functions for the xpath engine, as well as extension elements, that have a
- character in their name. (Hyphens are notallowed in java method names)
When the extension function is implemented in Java, then before selecting
the java method name, the hyphen characters are removed and the letter
following them is uppercased.
This allows you to call a function to-string($object) in xpath,
which results in a call to the toString() method in Java. Or
has-sames-nodes instead of hasSameNodes.
It is of course completely syntactic sugar, but it seems that in the XML
world it is common to use hyphens where Java uses upper-case.
The XT engine does the same with extension functions.
An example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:date="xalan://java.util.Date">
<xsl:template match="/">
<out>
<xsl:value-of select="date:to-string(date:new())"/>
</out>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Attached to this e-mail is the patch.
Is this nice to have in Xalan?
Best,
Erwin Bolwidt
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