Hi,
i am calling from a XSLT Stylesheet, a Java function that returns a byte[] and i want to use that, and output it to the destiny file, i have this line

<xsl:value-of select="rbt:Utils.returnFile(@src)"/>

I get an error, saying it couldn't convert a byte to String, if i change the function return to a String it works, but then i don't have the correct bytes, and i don't have the propper result.
Is there anyway to output bytes?
Thanks

The rules for extension functions depend on the XSLT processor you are using, no-one can answer this question without having that information.

I'm not sure how you would expect an XSLT processor to translate bytes to characters. What encoding should it assume: UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, the platform default?



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I was hoping there was another command (instead of <xsl:value-of>) that could receive a byte[]
The problem is i have an Image, and i want to write it's bytes to the response (because i'm creating a Multipart Response), and if i translate those bytes to a String (new String(byte[])) it doesn't work

Is there anyway i can get this to work
thanks

XSLT can't produce binary output. Using 2.0 you can however produce base64 or hexBinary encoded output.

In Saxon 8.x, if an extension function returns byte[], Saxon translates this into an XPath 2.0 xs:integer*, that is, a sequence of integers. You can then convert this to a base64binary value using the extension function saxon:octetsToBase64Binary(), or to a hexBinary value using saxon:octetsToHexBinary(). You could then output these values to a result document and use some non-XSLT process to convert the result document into real binary.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference