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  7. <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Implementing Saxon extension functions</h1>
  8. <div class="body"><p class="shortdesc">Plug-ins can contribute Saxon extension functions for use in XSLT transformations run by DITA Open
  9. Toolkit.</p>
  10. <p class="p">Starting with Saxon 9.2, the mechanism for implementing extension functions has changed such that Saxon HE, in
  11. particular, can no longer use the older “reflexive” mechanism for finding Java extension functions using a magic
  12. URL. Instead, you implement extension functions and then register them directly on the Saxon Configuration object.
  13. DITA-OT provides a dynamic mechanism to perform this registration for plug-in-provided extension functions.</p>
  14. <div class="p">To implement extension functions, you must do the following:
  15. <ol class="ol">
  16. <li class="li">Add your plug-in’s JAR file in the DITA-OT class path as described in
  17. <a class="xref" href="plugin-javalib.html" title="You can use the dita.conductor.lib.import extension point to add an additional Java library to the DITA-OT classpath parameter.">Adding a Java library to the DITA-OT classpath</a>.</li>
  18. <li class="li">For each function, implement a class that extends
  19. <code class="ph codeph">net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionDefinition</code>. This class provides the namespace name and
  20. function name for the function as well as details about its arguments and so on. See
  21. <a class="xref" href="http://www.saxonica.com/html/documentation9.8/extensibility/integratedfunctions" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Integrated extension functions</a> in the Saxon documentation.</li>
  22. <li class="li">Include a file named <span class="ph filepath">net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionDefinition</span> in the directory
  23. <span class="ph filepath">META-INF/services</span> in the compiled JAR that your plug-in provides. Each line of the file
  24. must be the name of a class that implements <code class="ph codeph">net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionDefinition</code>: <pre class="pre codeblock"><code>com.example.saxon.functions.Add
  25. com.example.saxon.functions.Substract</code></pre>
  26. <div class="p">You can create the file using <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;service&gt;</code> elements in an Ant
  27. <code class="keyword markupname xmlelement">&lt;jar&gt;</code>
  28. task:<pre class="pre codeblock language-xml"><code>&lt;jar destfile="${basedir}/target/lib/example-saxon.jar"&gt;
  29. &lt;service type="net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionDefinition"&gt;
  30. &lt;provider classname="com.example.saxon.functions.Add"/&gt;
  31. &lt;provider classname="com.example.saxon.functions.Subtract"/&gt;
  32. &lt;/service&gt;
  33. &lt;/jar&gt;</code></pre></div></li>
  34. <li class="li">In your XSLT transformations, declare the namespace the functions are bound
  35. to:<pre class="pre codeblock language-xml"><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  36. xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  37. <strong class="ph b">xmlns:eg="http://example.com/saxon-extensions"</strong>
  38. version="2.0"&gt;</code></pre></li>
  39. </ol></div>
  40. <div class="p">You should then be able to use the extension functions as you would any other
  41. function:<pre class="pre codeblock language-xml"><code>&lt;xsl:variable name="test" select="<strong class="ph b">eg:add(1, 2)</strong>"/&gt;</code></pre></div>
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