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

Thu Feb 28 18:30:29 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:
> 
>   <?xml version="1.0"?>
>   <xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0' xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
>                   xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings" 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?

I just checked the release notes of libxslt. They say that str:replace was
"improved" in libxslt 1.1.20. However, my tests show that it does not work in
any version before 1.1.21, so I assume the binary build uses 1.1.20 or an
older version.

http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html

Stefan