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The Mule 3.6 release brought a comprehensive and very welcome refresh of XML capabilities, including cutting-edge XSLT support via the Saxon 9.6 HE library. Unfortunately one feature lost in this overhaul was Saxon’s easy mechanism for using Java methods as XSLT extension functions. Here’s how we made it easier to use Java extension functions that work with Mule’s new XML stack.
Continue readingA handy addition in XSLT 2.0 is a nice set of date and time format XPath functions. XSLT 1.0 was decidedly lacking in these functions, so you may have used a third-party library such as EXSLT for this purpose. EXSLT offers arithmetic functions on dates and times (still absent in XSLT 2.0) but the XSLT 2.0 offering is perfect for formatting dates and times as strings. It also means that you don't have to worry about importing the third-party library.
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