EXSLT is a community initiative to provide extensions to

XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subse ...

, which are broken down into a number of modules, listed below. The creators (Jeni Tennison, Uche Ogbuji, Jim Fuller, Dave Pawson, et al.) of EXSLT aim to encourage the implementers of XSLT processors to use these extensions, in order to increase the portability of stylesheets.

List of functions

Common EXSLT

Common covers common, basic extension elements and functions.

Math EXSLT

Math covers extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with mathematics.

Sets EXSLT

Sets covers those extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with set manipulation.

Dates and Times EXSLT

Dates and Times covers date and time-related extension elements and functions.

Strings EXSLT

Strings covers extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with string manipulation.

Regular Expressions EXSLT

Regular Expressions covers extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with regular expressions.

Dynamic EXSLT

Dynamic covers extension elements and functions that deal with the dynamic evaluation of strings containing XPath expressions.

Random EXSLT

Random covers extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with randomness.

External links

* {{official website, http://www.exslt.org/
EXSLT Tools
XML-based standards Markup languages Functional languages