[lxml-dev] Using EXSLT extensions on Windows with standard lxml binaries

Tue Feb 26 14:58:30 CET 2008

Hi,

Alexander Kozlovsky wrote:
> I'm trying to use EXSLT extension functions on Windows
> with standard lxml binary distribution (lxml-1.3.6.win32-py2.4.exe)
>
> I'm trying to do the next, but it is not work as expected:

What result do you get?

>   <?xml version="1.0"?>
>   <xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
> xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
>                   xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"

Try removing the following line (except for the '>', obviously):

> extension-element-prefixes="str">

>       <xsl:template match="body">
>           <body>
>               <h1 class="{str:replace('abc', 'b', 'x')}">test</h1>
>           </body>
>       </xsl:template>
>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Is it possible to use EXSLT extensions on Windows without rebuilding
> of standard binaries?

Never tried, but I wouldn't know a reason why this should fail.

Stefan