Question

This is my XML document:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xml' href='/foo.xsl'?>
<document/>

This is /foo.xsl:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:foo="foo"
  version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xs">
  <xsl:function name="foo:const" as="xs:string">
    <xsl:text>ABC</xsl:text>
  </xsl:function>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of select="foo:const()"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Works fine with Saxon 8.7 and produces ABC, as an output. But in Safari and in Chrome this document doesn’t work (just an empty page with no error messages). What is it about? Safari and Chrome don’t support XSL functions?

Answer 1

Sadly, none of the browsers yet support XSLT 2.0 natively. I think they’re all waiting for the others to move first.