Ah. I figured out the problem. It should read:
> <xsl:param name="what"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="translate(string($what), "abc", "ABC)"/>
Thanks again,
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Doppelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sablotron Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Sab] external functions?
> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, a call like:
>
> ...
> <xsl:param name="what"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="translate($what, "abc", "ABC)"/>
> ...
>
> fails with an "illegal argument type" error.
>
> I am just getting into the source, but it appears that the EXFF_TRANSLATE
> handler checks to see if each of the arguments is an EX_STRING. The
> parameter argument is of type EX_NODESET, so sablot won't accept it.
>
> Does sablot support passing template parameters to XPath functions?
>
> Adam
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kaiserovi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Sablotron Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sab] external functions?
>
>
> > Adam:
> >
> > if you don't care about supporting a lot of charsets, you could probably
> > just use the XPath function translate(), see section 4.2 of the XPath
> > spec. Like in the following fragment:
> >
> > ...
> > <xsl:variable name="upper" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="lower" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
> >
> > <!-- outputs the parameter converted to uppercase: -->
> > <xsl:template name="toupper">
> > <xsl:param name="what"/>
> > <xsl:value-of select="translate($what, $lower, $upper)"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> > ...
> >
> > Of course, using a special extension function might be more elegant but
> > none is currently available in Sablotron.
> >
> > Tom
>
>
