Chapter 8. Using the XSLT and XPath Functions

This chapter explores the functions available to you in XSLT, both the built-in XSLT functions and the XPath functions you can use. You’ve already seen a number of these functions, such as id, generate-id, position, count, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll see all the available functions.

Some of the functions available are built into XSLT, and some from within XPath. Both XSLT and XPath are in the process of being upgraded to version 2.0, and at the end of this chapter I’ll take a look at the future and what new functions will be appearing. (No new version 2.0 functions have been made public yet.) ...

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