Beginning Ajax with P27:Thank you for purchasing Beginning Ajax with . We know that you have a lot of options when selecting a programming book and are glad that you have chosen ours. We’re sure you will be pleased with the relevant content and high quality you have come to expect from the Wrox Press line of books. | Appendix A XSLT-Only Methods XSLT-only functions may be called only from within an XSLT processor. These methods are not callable from the Document Object Model DOM . Function Name Description current The current method returns a node set that contains the current node as its only member. document The document method provides a mechanism to retrieve data from other XML resource from within the XSLT style sheet. element-available The element-available method returns a true only if the expanded-name is the name of an instruction. format-number The format-number method converts the first argument to a string using the pattern specified by the second argument. function-available The function-available method returns true if the function is available in the function library. generate-id The generate-id method returns a string that identifies the node in the node set argument that is first in the document order. The node is identified uniquely. key The key method returns elements that have been market with an xsl key statement. node-set The node-set method converts a tree in a node set. system-property The system-property method returns an object that represents the value of the system property that has been identified by the name. unparsed-entry-uri The unparsed-entity-uri method returns declarations of unparsed entities in the DTD of the source document. Accessor The accessor family of methods provides information about the internal state of a node. Name Description node-name node The method returns the node-name of the specified node. nilled node This method returns a Boolean value as to whether or not the argument node has been nilled. data item . This method returns a sequence of atomic values. base-uri base-uri node This method returns the value of the base-uri property of the current or specified nodes. document-uri node This method returns the value of the document-uri property for the specified node. 366 XSLT Commands Boolean The boolean family of methods .
