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Functions with default arguments

If a function should provide a default value for an optional argument, it is necessary to provide a declaration for the general function and then to declare variants of the function with smaller number of arguments which call the general function with default values.

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:multiply">
                  <xsl:param  name="a"/>
                  <xsl:param  name="b"/>
                  <xsl:value-of  select="$a * $b"/>
            </xsl:function>

            <xsl:function  name="my:multiply">
                  <xsl:param  name="a"/>
                  <xsl:value-of  select="my:multiply($a,10)"/>
            </xsl:function>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xsl:value-of  select="my:multiply(2,3)"/>
                  <xsl:text> | </xsl:text>
                  <xsl:value-of  select="my:multiply(5)"/>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa/>
Output
6 | 50


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