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Declaration of stylesheet functions

In XSLT 2.0 it is possible to declare user-defined functions which can be used in the same way as the standard functions.

The first step in creating a user-defined function is to declare a namespace for these functions. Element xsl:function is then used to specify functionality.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:my="myFunctions"
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0"
                  exclude-result-prefixes="my">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:function  name="my:printHello">
                  <xsl:text>Hello</xsl:text>
            </xsl:function>

            <xsl:function  name="my:printWorld">
                  <xsl:text>world</xsl:text>
            </xsl:function>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xsl:value-of  select="my:printHello()"/>
                  <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
                  <xsl:value-of  select="my:printWorld()"/>
                  <xsl:text>!</xsl:text>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa/>
Output
Hello, world!


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