Re: Extension: how to return java values from templates?

[Brad Cox]

So ..., to flesh out the parallels I posed earlier
        xslt                            java
        ----                            ----
        call-template                   subroutine()
        with-parameter                  subroutine(argument)
        variable name select            variable = value
        no equivalent                   return ..
        apply-templates                 no equivalent
Doesn't this strike anyone else but me as a serious flaw. It 
basically requires that all extension calls must occur in a single 
monolithic template. Modularity out the window.

At 11:09 AM -0500 3/7/02, Joseph Kesselman/CAM/Lotus wrote:
Sorry; I misread your question.
For the question of what templates return, I think we have to go back to
the XSLT spec and/or Xalan's source code. I haven't found any indication
there that templates are able to return anything other than one of XSLT's
native datatypes.
So as far as I can tell, you're out of luck -- if you want something that
returns non-XSLT data, it has to be non-XSLT code in an extension function.

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