Calling .NET Instance-Level Methods
Instance-level methods (that is, non-static methods)
are called by supplying an extra first argument of type external .NET object which is the
object on which the method is to be invoked. An external .NET Object may be created by calling an extension
function (e.g. a constructor) that returns an object; it may also be passed to the query or stylesheet as the
value of a global parameter. Matching of method names is done as for static methods.
If there are several methods in the class that match the localname, the system again tries to
find the one that is the best fit, according to the types of the supplied arguments.
For example, the following XSLT stylesheet prints the operating system name and version.
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template name="main"> <out xmlns:env="clitype:System.Environment" xmlns:os="clitype:System.OperatingSystem"> <xsl:variable name="os" select="env:OSVersion()"/> <v platform="{os:Platform($os)}" version="{os:Version($os)}"/> </out> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>The equivalent in XQuery is:
declare namespace env="clitype:System.Environment"; declare namespace os="clitype:System.OperatingSystem"; let $os := env:OSVersion() return <v platform="{os:Platform($os)}" version="{os:Version($os)}"/>As with static methods, an instance-level Java method called as an extension function may have an extra first argument of
class net.sf.saxon.expr.XPathContext.
This argument is not
supplied by the calling XPath or XQuery code, but by Saxon itself.
The XPathContext object provides methods to access many
internal Saxon resources, the most useful being getContextItem() which returns the context item
from the dynamic context.
If any exceptions are thrown by the method, or if a matching method cannot be found,
processing of the stylesheet will be abandoned. If the tracing option has been set (-TJ) on the
command line, a full stack trace will be output. The exception will be wrapped in a
TransformerException and passed to any user-specified ErrorListener object,
so the ErrorListener can also produce extra diagnostics.