4Suite API Documentation

Module Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements

Fourthought proprietary XSLT extension elements
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Classes:
Globals:

Classes

class AssignElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
The f:assign element works like xsl:variable, but forces both a local and a global variable binding, replacing any other in-scope bindings having the same expanded-name. Thus, it can be used to circumvent XSLT's restriction on variables not being reassignable. However, its use is not recommended, for reasons explained below.
As with xsl:variable, the name of the variable is given in the mandatory
name attribute, and the new value may be given either by an expression in
the select attribute, or by instantiating the content of the element.

If no select attribute is given, then a body-as-ns attribute may be used
to indicate whether to assign the variable to the contents as a node-set
(value 'yes') or as a result tree fragment (default, or value 'no').
In either case, be aware that the node-set or result tree fragment will
have a root node.

Note that reassignment of variables is generally never actually needed.
Before using f:assign, read the XSL FAQ or ask on xsl-list if there is a
better, more portable way to solve your problem.

XSLT is designed as a language that is free of side-effects, which is
why assignment is not allowed and variables have very specific scope.
When variable assignment is allowed, certain optimizations in the XSLT
processor become impossible. Also, there are some circumstances in which
the order of execution may not be quite what you expect, in which case
f:assign may show anomalous behavior. It does not work predictably when
called from within a tail-recursive template, for example.

That said, f:assign can be a convenient way to create a node-set from
a result tree fragment in XSLT 1.0. The proper way to do this is with
EXSLT: <xsl:variable name="rtf"><foo/></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="ns" select="exsl:node-set($rtf)" xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"/>
but f:assign can do it in one step:
<f:assign name="ns" body-as-ns="yes"><foo/></f:assign>

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'body-as-ns': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d3d2c>, 'name': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.QName instance at 0xb75d368c>, 'select': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.Expression instance at 0xb75d374c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class ChainToElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
f:chain-to tells the processor to apply the output of the current stylsheet as the input of another stylesheet, establishing a chain of transforms. The next stylesheet in the chain is specified using an AVT, which allows for dynamically constructed chains.
Children can be xsl:with-param elements, in which case the specified
values are passed on to the next stylesheet as top-level parameters

Warning: if the href attribute is blank, it will chain back to this
same stylesheet and could lead to an infinite loop.
FIXME: Trap this condition

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

content = <Ft.Xml.Xslt.ContentInfo.Rep instance at 0xb75d73ec>
legalAttrs = {'href': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.UriReferenceAvt instance at 0xb75d738c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class CreateIndexElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
f:create-index allows one to create an arbitrary key at run time using any node data. It is similar to xsl:key, except that it is computed on demand at run-time, and uses an XPath selection rather than an XSLT match, which gives more flexibility over what is indexed.
These keys can be accessed using the extension function f:lookup().

Avoid making a dynamic index have the same name as a proper xsl:key.
In particular this will confuse tools such as the <f:dump-keys/>
diagnostic extension.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'name': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d710c>, 'select': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.Expression instance at 0xb75d71ec>, 'use': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.Expression instance at 0xb75d720c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class DumpKeysElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'force-update': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d3dec>, 'raw': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d3d4c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class DumpVarsElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'raw': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d3e8c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class FtApplyImports(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
The f:apply-imports element is an extension of the xsl:apply-imports element. It differs from xsl:apply-imports in the following way: The element accepts xsl:with-param children that designate parameters that will be passed to the applied templates.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement
setup(self)
Overrides: setup from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

category = 0
content = <Ft.Xml.Xslt.ContentInfo.Rep instance at 0xb75d342c>
doesSetup = 1
legalAttrs = {}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class FtApplyTemplates(Ft.Xml.Xslt.ApplyTemplatesElement.ApplyTemplatesElement)
The f:apply-templates element is an extension of the xsl:apply-templates element. It differs from xsl:apply-templates in the following way: The value of the mode attribute is an attribute value template rather than a static string. Thus, the mode can be computed at run time.

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.ApplyTemplatesElement.ApplyTemplatesElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'mode': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.QNameAvt instance at 0xb75d340c>, 'select': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.Expression instance at 0xb75d32ec>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.ApplyTemplatesElement.ApplyTemplatesElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class FtOutputElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
f:output is similar to xsl:output, but it allows you to compute the output parameters dynamically (as attribute value templates). Unlike xsl:output, this element is not expected to be empty; the output parameters apply only to the serialization of the element's content.

Methods

__init__(self, *args, **kwds)
Overrides: __init__ from class XsltElement
instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

content = <Ft.Xml.Xslt.ContentInfo.Rep instance at 0xb7625fec>
legalAttrs = {'cdata-section-elements': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.QNamesAvt instance at 0xb75d35ec>, 'doctype-public': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d354c>, 'doctype-system': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d35ac>, 'encoding': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d34ec>, 'indent': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d360c>, 'media-type': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d364c>, 'method': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.QNameAvt instance at 0xb75d344c>, 'omit-xml-declaration': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d350c>, 'standalone': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d352c>, 'version': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.NMTokenAvt instance at 0xb75d34cc>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class GettextElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

content = <Ft.Xml.Xslt.ContentInfo.Rep instance at 0xb7625fec>

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class MsgControlElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
f:msg-control provides, as a side effect, context-sensitive control over whether messages (i.e., those produced by xsl:message) and warnings are output by the processor.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'suppress': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.YesNoAvt instance at 0xb75d70cc>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class RawTextOutputElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
Given a foreign XPath object, f:raw-text-output creates a text node based on the object, just like xsl:value-of with disable-output-escaping="yes". Unlike xsl:value-of, however, this element does not use the string-value of the object; it instead feeds the object directly to the current output writer. Therefore, unless a custom output writer is used, the object must be a Python Unicode string.
The intent is to provide a way to serialize a Unicode string that may
contain characters that are not permitted in an XPath string object.
For example, another extension can convert raw binary data to a
Unicode string, and then this extension can reserialize that string
through the XSLT output stream, without risk of losing any data due
to XPath's restrictions on string content.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'select': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.Expression instance at 0xb75d722c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class ReplaceElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)
f:replace performs a search and replace on a string, placing the results in the output. The content is treated as a template. The string value of the output from this template is the replacement string. All instances of the string given by the 'substring' attribute are replaced with the replacement string.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

legalAttrs = {'string': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringExpression instance at 0xb75d3fac>, 'substring': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringExpression instance at 0xb75d3fec>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class SetupTranslationsElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement)

Methods

prime(self, processor, context)
#def instantiate(self, context, processor):
Overrides: prime from class XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

category = 1
doesPrime = 1
legalAttrs = {'domain': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d74ac>, 'localedir': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.StringAvt instance at 0xb75d74ec>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

class UriToElementElement(Ft.Xml.Xslt.ElementElement.ElementElement)
Extends xsl:element by deriving the constructed element's QName and namespace from the supplied URI reference. The URI reference is first resolved to absolute form. Then, if the resulting URI begins with an in-scope namespace, that namespace will be used as if it had been supplied as the 'namespace' attribute to xsl:element, and the remainder of the URI will be combined with a prefix from the in-scope namespace bindings and used as if supplied as the 'name' attribute to xsl:element.
Otherwise, the supplied default-name and default-namespace will be
used, effecting the same result as calling xsl:element with these
values.

The intent is to allow an RDF resource, as identified by a URI with
a fragment component, to be easily converted into an element.

Methods

instantiate(self, context, processor)
Overrides: instantiate from class ElementElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.ElementElement.ElementElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Methods inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Members

content = <Ft.Xml.Xslt.ContentInfo.Rep instance at 0xb7625fec>
legalAttrs = {'default-name': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.RawQNameAvt instance at 0xb75d744c>, 'default-namespace': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.UriReferenceAvt instance at 0xb75d746c>, 'uri': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.UriReferenceAvt instance at 0xb75d742c>, 'use-attribute-sets': <Ft.Xml.Xslt.AttributeInfo.QNames instance at 0xb75d748c>}

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.ElementElement.ElementElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltElement

Members inherited from class Ft.Xml.Xslt.StylesheetTree.XsltNode

Globals

ExtElements = {('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'apply-imports'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.FtApplyImports at 0xb75ca83c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'apply-templates'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.FtApplyTemplates at 0xb75ca86c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'assign'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.AssignElement at 0xb75cab9c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'chain-to'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.ChainToElement at 0xb75cacec>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'create-index'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.CreateIndexElement at 0xb75cac8c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'dump-keys'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.DumpKeysElement at 0xb75cabcc>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'dump-vars'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.DumpVarsElement at 0xb75cabfc>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'gettext'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.GettextElement at 0xb75cad7c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'message-control'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.MsgControlElement at 0xb75cac5c>, ('http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext', 'output'): <class Ft.Xml.Xslt.BuiltInExtElements.FtOutputElement at 0xb75cab6c>, ...}
ExtNamespaces = {'http://xmlns.4suite.org/ext': 'f'}
RESERVED_NAMESPACE = u'http://xmlns.4suite.org/reserved'