"SadSac" <SadSac@d...> wrote in message
news:ED326B14-664C-420A-99D6-B4C11A8BDB8C@m......
> Hi Martin,
>
> I would also like to point you to an article written by Aaron Skonnard for
> MSDN magazine in March 2002.
>
> See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/03/xml/
>
> "The XSLT 1.0 specification defines two types of extensions: extension
> elements and extension functions. Both types of extensions provide
additional
> functionality to the standard language and can be used like any other XSLT
> 1.0 element (these include xsl:transform, xsl:template, xsl:value-of, and
so
> on) or XPath 1.0/XSLT 1.0 function (such as string, substring-before, sum,
> document, and so forth)."
>
> Aaron continues to describe how extension elements work, but provides no
> real implementation details. Curiously he also describes a mechanism for
> getting and setting properties.
>
> "Properties are accessed in XSLT by prefixing the property name with
either
> get- or put- followed by parentheses. eg. get-age(), put-age(33)"
>
> I got the property get- working fine, but I have not been able to get the
> property put- funtion right. At least one other article talks of set-
rather
> than put- and Microsoft documentation only ever mentions the get- method.
>

The article applies to the .NET implementation not MSXML.

put- in MSXML will suffer the same limitation as your functions it requires
some output.