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Prasanna K
Prasanna K

Reputation: 27

The URI urn:this-stylesheet does not identify an external Java class

I am debugging a XSLT and seeing the below error

 <xsl:function name="this:sendquotedvalue" as="xs:string">
calling using the below lines
<xsl:value-of select="this:sendquotedvalue($emptyString)"/>

error i am getting is

The URI urn:this-stylesheet does not identify an external Java class

also have urn as below

xmlns:this="urn:this-stylesheet"

Any suggestion

-Prasanna.K

Upvotes: 0

Views: 379

Answers (1)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163262

I suspect that your stylesheet specifies version="2.0" (or higher), but you are running it under an XSLT 1.0 processor.

A 1.0 processor is required to ignore declarations like xsl:function if the stylesheet version is greater than 1.0 (this is called "forwards compatibility mode"). So the xsl:function doesn't exist, which makes the attempt to call this function an error. For a 1.0 Java processor, there are only two kinds of functions that it knows about: built in core functions (in no namespace), and external Java functions. It's ruled out the first category because there's a namespace, and now it's telling you that it can't be an external Java function either, because the namespace doesn't map to any external Java class.

Note that specifying version="2.0" in a stylesheet doesn't magically give you an XSLT 2.0 processor; the rules for loading an XSLT processor (such as the JAXP factory rules) don't take the stylesheet version into account.

Upvotes: 1

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