Re: [xslt] codepoints-to-string function in xsltproc

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:24:52PM +0200, Vlastimil Krejcir wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:58:27PM +0200, Vlastimil Krejcir wrote:
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  I am trying to use XPath function codepoints-to-string(), but xsltproc
> >>returning me:
> >>
> >>xmlXPathCompOpEval: function codepoints-to-string not found
> >>XPath error : Unregistered function
> >>
> >>I think, the function codepoints-to-string is not implemented yet. Am I
> >>right? I could not find list of available function, so I could not check
> >>it.
> >
> > I'm positive that codepoints-to-string is not part of the XSLT-1.0
> >and XPath-1.0 standards. I don't know what you are talking about, and
> >I don't see why this should be implemented in libxslt at this point.
> 
> Sorry, it is my fault. I don't know xsltproc is following XSLT-1.0 and not 
> also XSLT-2.0 (and XPath-2.0). Could we hope in implementation XSLT-2.0 
> and XPath-2.0 in the future?

  Not planned at this point, nobody seems eager to implement it !

> Maybe (unfortunately) not. The function codepoints-to-string() could be 
> very useful for me. Programming in XSLT is a little bit an art, and maybe 
> there is another way to do thmings what I want to do. See my next question 
> in "How to generate alphabet using xslt?".

  Sorry I have no idea what "generating an alphabet" means,

Daniel

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