Return associative array using xalan-c extensions

[henribastien]

I'm trying to return an array from a xalan extension but so far I have
made no progress. What I would like to return is something like that

<entry id="red">201</entry>
<entry id="green>55</entry>
<entry id="blue">123</entry>

so I could acces them with something like $returned[@id='red'].

Problem is, I haven't figured out how to do that. I haven't found any
exemple of a xalan extension function returning a nodeset so I fear it
is not possible but I would have preferred to use only one function
instead of three (or three call for that matter, i.e ext:get("blue") or
ext:getBlue() )

Is it possible and if so could you provide an exemple. If there are
other alternatives I'm open to any suggestion.

 

[Joe Kesselman]

exemple of a xalan extension function returning a nodeset

I'm not sure offhand if it's possible in Xalan-C. It certainly is
possible in Xalan-J...

Have you checked the Xalan-C documentation at Apache's website
(http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/extensions.html), or examined the code
for the built-in extensions which ship with Xalan-C (such as
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/extensionslib.html#nodeset)?

 

[henribastien]

Yes, I have looked at theses function. My problem is that they never
really create a node-set nor alter any node they mainly return some of
the node that were submited as argument. What I would like to do is
create from scratch a node or if its really not possible submit a nod
set and "fill" the information in them. If you can give me an exemple
using xalan-j maybe I can figure out how to do something similar in
xalan-c.