Class Extensions

java.lang.Object
net.sf.saxon.functions.Extensions

public class Extensions extends Object
This class implements functions that are supplied as standard with SAXON, but which are not defined in the XSLT or XPath specifications.

To invoke these functions, use a function call of the form prefix:name() where name is the method name, and prefix maps to a URI such as http://saxon.sf.net/net.sf.saxon.functions.Extensions (only the part of the URI after the last slash is important).

  • Method Details

    • pauseTracing

      public static void pauseTracing(XPathContext c)
      Switch tracing off. Only works if tracing was enabled at compile time.
    • resumeTracing

      public static void resumeTracing(XPathContext c)
      Resume tracing. Only works if tracing was originally enabled but is currently paused.
    • systemId

      public static String systemId(XPathContext c) throws XPathException
      Return the system identifier of the context node
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • generateId

      public static String generateId(NodeInfo node)
      The function saxon:generate-id() is equivalent to the standard XSLT function generate-id(). It is provided as an extension function to make it available in non-XSLT environments, for example in XQuery.
      Parameters:
      node - the node whose identifier is required
      Returns:
      as ASCII alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies this node
    • lineNumber

      public static int lineNumber(XPathContext c)
      Return the line number of the context node.
    • lineNumber

      public static int lineNumber(NodeInfo node)
      Return the line number of the specified node.
    • discardDocument

      public static DocumentInfo discardDocument(XPathContext context, DocumentInfo doc)
      Remove a document from the document pool. The effect is that the document becomes eligible for garbage collection, allowing memory to be released when processing of the document has finished. The downside is that a subsequent call on document() with the same URI causes the document to be reloaded and reparsed, and the new nodes will have different node identity from the old.
      Parameters:
      context - the evaluation context (supplied implicitly by the call mechanism)
      doc - the document to be released from the document pool
      Returns:
      the document that was released. This allows a call such as select="saxon:discard-document(document('a.xml'))"
    • hasSameNodes

      public static boolean hasSameNodes(SequenceIterator p1, SequenceIterator p2) throws XPathException
      Determine whether two node-sets contain the same nodes
      Parameters:
      p1 - The first node-set. The iterator must be correctly ordered.
      p2 - The second node-set. The iterator must be correctly ordered.
      Returns:
      true if p1 and p2 contain the same set of nodes
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • highest

      public static Value highest(SequenceIterator nsv) throws XPathException
      Get the node with maximum numeric value of the string-value of each of a set of nodes
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • highest

      public static SequenceIterator highest(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator nsv, Evaluate.PreparedExpression pexpression) throws XPathException
      Get the maximum numeric value of a stored expression over a set of nodes
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • lowest

      public static Value lowest(SequenceIterator nsv) throws XPathException
      Get the node with minimum numeric value of the string-value of each of a set of nodes
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • lowest

      public static SequenceIterator lowest(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator nsv, Evaluate.PreparedExpression pexpression) throws XPathException
      Get the node with minimum numeric value of a stored expression over a set of nodes
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • leading

      public static SequenceIterator leading(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator in, Evaluate.PreparedExpression pexp)
      Get the items that satisfy the given expression, up to and excluding the first one (in sequence order) that doesn't satisfy the expression.
    • after

      public static SequenceIterator after(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator ns1, SequenceIterator ns2) throws XPathException
      Find all the nodes in ns1 that are after the first node in ns2. Return ns1 if ns2 is empty,
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • tokenize

      public static SequenceIterator tokenize(String s)
      Return a node-set by tokenizing a supplied string. Tokens are delimited by any sequence of whitespace characters.
    • tokenize

      public static SequenceIterator tokenize(String s, String delim)
      Return a sequence by tokenizing a supplied string. The argument delim is a String, any character in this string is considered to be a delimiter character, and any sequence of delimiter characters acts as a separator between tokens.
    • path

      public static String path(XPathContext c) throws XPathException
      Return an XPath expression that identifies the current node
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • typeAnnotation

      public static String typeAnnotation(XPathContext context, NodeInfo node)
      Display the value of the type annotation of a node
    • getContext

      public static XPathContext getContext(XPathContext c)
      Return the XPathContext object
    • getController

      public static Controller getController(XPathContext c)
      Return the Controller object
    • getConfiguration

      public static Configuration getConfiguration(XPathContext c)
      Return the Configuration object
    • getPseudoAttribute

      public static String getPseudoAttribute(XPathContext c, String name) throws XPathException
      Get a pseudo-attribute of a processing instruction. Return an empty string if the pseudo-attribute is not present. Character references and built-in entity references are expanded
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • dayTimeDurationFromSeconds

      public static SecondsDurationValue dayTimeDurationFromSeconds(BigDecimal arg) throws XPathException
      Get a dayTimeDuration value corresponding to a given number of seconds
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • yearMonthDurationFromMonths

      public static MonthDurationValue yearMonthDurationFromMonths(int arg)
      Get a yearMonthDuration value corresponding to a given number of months
    • decimalDivide

      public static BigDecimal decimalDivide(BigDecimal arg1, BigDecimal arg2, int scale)
      Perform decimal division to a user-specified precision
    • stringToUtf8

      public static List stringToUtf8(String in)
      Get the UTF-8 encoding of a string
      Parameters:
      in - the supplied string
      Returns:
      a sequence of integers, each in the range 0-255, representing the octets of the UTF-8 encoding of the given string
    • octetsToBase64Binary

      public static Base64BinaryValue octetsToBase64Binary(byte[] in)
      Convert a sequence of integers in the range 0-255, representing a sequence of octets, to a base64Binary value
    • octetsToHexBinary

      public static HexBinaryValue octetsToHexBinary(byte[] in)
      Convert a sequence of integers in the range 0-255, representing a sequence of octets, to a hexBinary value
    • base64BinaryToOctets

      public static byte[] base64BinaryToOctets(Base64BinaryValue in)
      Convert a base64Binary value to a sequence of integers representing the octets contained in the value
    • hexBinaryToOctets

      public static byte[] hexBinaryToOctets(HexBinaryValue in)
      Convert a hexBinary value to a sequence of integers representing the octets contained in the value
    • base64BinaryToString

      public static String base64BinaryToString(XPathContext context, Base64BinaryValue in, String encoding) throws Exception
      Convert a base64Binary value to a String, assuming a particular encoding
      Throws:
      Exception
    • stringToBase64Binary

      public static Base64BinaryValue stringToBase64Binary(String in, String encoding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException, IOException
      Convert a string to a base64Binary value in a given encoding
      Throws:
      UnsupportedEncodingException
      IOException
    • hexBinaryToString

      public static String hexBinaryToString(XPathContext context, HexBinaryValue in, String encoding) throws Exception
      Convert a hexBinary value to a String, assuming a particular encoding
      Throws:
      Exception
    • stringToHexBinary

      public static HexBinaryValue stringToHexBinary(String in, String encoding) throws Exception
      Convert a string to a hexBinary value in a given encoding
      Throws:
      Exception
    • validCharacter

      public static boolean validCharacter(XPathContext c, int in)
      Test whether a given integer is the codepoint of a valid XML character
    • namespaceNode

      public static NodeInfo namespaceNode(XPathContext context, String prefix, String uri) throws XPathException
      Create a parentless namespace node. This function is useful in XQuery when namespaces need to be created dynamically. The effect is the same as that of the xsl:namespace instruction in XSLT.
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • deepEqual

      public static boolean deepEqual(XPathContext context, SequenceIterator arg1, SequenceIterator arg2, String collation, String flags) throws XPathException
      Perform a parameterized deep-equals() test
      Parameters:
      context - The evaluation context
      arg1 - The first sequence to be compared
      arg2 - The second sequence to be compared
      collation - The collation to be used (null if the default collation is to be used)
      flags - A string whose characters select options that cause the comparison to vary from the standard fn:deep-equals() function. The flags are:
      • N - take namespace nodes into account
      • A - compare type annotations
      • C - take comments into account
      • F - take namespace prefixes into account
      • P - take processing instructions into account
      • S - compare string values, not typed values
      • w - don't take whitespace-only text nodes into account
      Returns:
      true if the sequences are deep equal, otherwise false
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • compileStylesheet

      public static Templates compileStylesheet(XPathContext context, DocumentInfo doc) throws XPathException
      Compile a document containing a stylesheet module into a stylesheet that can be used to perform transformations
      Throws:
      XPathException
    • transform

      public static DocumentInfo transform(XPathContext context, Templates templates, NodeInfo source) throws XPathException
      Run a transformation to convert an input tree to an output document
      Parameters:
      context - The dynamic context
      templates - The compiled stylesheet
      source - The initial context node representing the document to be transformed
      Throws:
      XPathException