Re: msxsl saxon exslt power function

MSXML does not implement exslt (I implemented a subset of EXSLT for msxml 
two years ago, which includes common:node-set() and all functions of the 
Sets module).

You can use the "pow" template of FXSL for XSLT 1.0

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

"Whitney, Dan (CanWest Interactive)" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:EADAFF8E8B62D51197720002A560B35E0F5D583F@HDO-EXCHANGE...
>
> A general question ...
> Using saxon 6.5.3 with the math namespace the following works beautifully:
>   <xsl:value-of select="format-number(((math:power(1.95, (1 div 8.5)) - 1)
> * 100), '#,##0.00; -#,##0.00')"/>
> and I get the output 8.17.
>
> However when I used msxsl 4.0, the error "math namespace does not contain
> any functions". So I downloaded the exslt functions added the line
> <xsl:import href="math.xsl" />
> and changed the <xsl:value-of ...> statement to
>
> <xsl:call-template name="math:power">
>   <xsl:with-param name="base" select="1.95" />
>   <xsl:with-param name="power" select="1 div 8.5" />
> </xsl:call-template>
>
> and the error "xslt template math:power doesn't support fractional or
> negative arguments". I'm just wondering why is there a difference in
> functionality? and is there some other function/way of getting this to 
> work
> with msxsl?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Whitney