Hi folks, new to the forum here.

I'm trying to get the hang of useing extensions to XSLT like some of the math setups that are out there and whatnot. My problem is that it seems that no matter what I do, I end up with a "Namespace * does not contain any functions.", with * = whatever namespace I try to use.

I'm playing with the following stylesheet right at the moment, that I snagged from here: http://xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2001-05/msg00028.html

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java" exclude-result-prefixes="java">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:variable name="max" select="10" />
  <xsl:variable name="min" select="4" />
  <xsl:variable name="R" select="java:java.util.Random.new()" />
  <xsl:value-of select="($max -$min) * java:nextDouble($R) + $min" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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I won't end up using it as-is, but I'd like to make it work just so that I know that I can make extensions work.

The machine I'm doing the work on... it's Windows 2000 and I think we're using Xalan, though I'm not sure of the version.

As I said, the error I'm getting is "COM Error: Namespace 'http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java' does not contain any functions."

Type slowly and bear with me if I'm getting my terminology wrong. Thanks :)

The way you call extension functions is processor-dependent. Find out which processor you are using (call system-property('xsl:vendor')) and look in the documentation for that processor.

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

Hmmm... the interesting thing is, the fellow I grabbed this from indicates that it works in Xalan and the pages that I googled also seem to indicate that this works in Xalan. Is there some sort of way maybe to turn the extensions off and on at the processor?

Any Xalan experts out there?

And so I prove myself an idiot first post...

Our setup has two servers, design and live, and due to the fact that our design server is forced to run IIS (to satisfy our CMS) and our live server is forced to run Apache (to satisfy our security people) it turns out that the two servers are using different XSLT processors... how pleasant. Turns out the design server is running MSXML.

With that in mind, I've now made it work. *sigh*