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    copied!<p>I have an XSL style sheet for which I need to add some custom string manipulation using an xsl:function. But I am having trouble trying to work out where to put the function in my document.</p> <p>My XSL simplified looks like this,</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:my="myFunctions" xmlns:d7p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:import href="Master.xslt"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt; &lt;fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt; &lt;!-- starts actual layout --&gt; &lt;fo:page-sequence master-reference="first"&gt; &lt;fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"&gt; &lt;!-- this defines a title level 1--&gt; &lt;fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="heading"&gt; HelloWorld &lt;/fo:block&gt; &lt;/fo:flow&gt; &lt;/fo:page-sequence&gt; &lt;/fo:root&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p>And I want to put in a simple function, say,</p> <pre><code> &lt;xsl:function name="my:helloWorld"&gt; &lt;xsl:text&gt;Hello World!&lt;/xsl:text&gt; &lt;/xsl:function&gt; </code></pre> <p>But I cannot work out where to put the function, when I put it under the node I get an error saying '<em>xsl:function' cannot be a child of the 'xsl:stylesheet' element.</em>, and if I put it under the node I get a similar error.</p> <p>Where should I put the function? Idealy I would like to put my functions in an external file and import them into my xsl files.</p>
 

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