The "return type" of a template has to be one of the XPath/XSLT data types,
period. Otherwise, the processor would be seriously confused trying to
generate the result tree.
An extension function returns a value, but a template's only "return value"
is the possible generation of nodes in the result tree.
Dave
Brad Cox
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AM Subject: Re: Extension: how to
return java values from
templates?
At 9:48 AM -0500 3/7/02, Joseph Kesselman/CAM/Lotus wrote:
>See http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensions.html#ext-functions,
>specifically the "Return values" section which describes how an extension
>function's return value is processed by Xalan.
I've read it. Repeatedly. But it doesn't address the question, which
is that variable assignments work "properly", retaining their java
type, whereas template calls convert the return type to #NODESET or
similar. The question was how to make template calls work "properly"
from java's point of view.
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