Hi, I think I just found a bug in XalanJ's implementation of the object-type function from EXSLT Common.
>From the EXSLT documentation and Xalan's Javadoc: "The possible object types are: 'string', 'number', 'boolean', 'node-set', 'RTF', or 'external'." The problem is that it will return 'unknown' instead of 'external'. You can easily reproduce the error with the following stylesheet: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0" xmlns:except="java.lang.Exception" xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"; xmlns:str="java.lang.String" exclude-result-prefixes="except exsl str"> <xsl:output indent="yes" method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:value-of select="exsl:object-type(/..)"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="exsl:object-type(str:new())"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="exsl:object-type(except:new())"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Which should return (it works ok in Saxon for example): node-set string external But it returns: node-set string unknown The problem seems to be in ExsltCommon.java and was introduced in June 2002 by dleslie (see revision 336508 in SVN). I found no reference anywhere for that problem so I thought it would be useful for other people if I documented it here. Regards, Eric
