I am sorry for the mess information about xalan extension

[cyfer zhang]

hello every body.
Sorry the hotmail make my email a mess, and I am resending it.
I met some thing strange when I am trying to extend Xalan with Javascript.
And I am asking why?
And the code is below
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GB2312"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0"
xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"; xmlns:my-ext="ext1"
extension-element-prefixes="my-ext">
<xsl:output encoding="GB2312"/>
<lxslt:component prefix="my-ext" elements="out"    functions="displaySex">
<lxslt:script lang="javascript">
function out(xslProcessorContext, elem){
  var o = elem.getChildNodes();
  var oTransformer = xslProcessorContext.getTransformer();
  try{
    for(var i = 0 ; i &lt; o.getLength() ; i ++ ){
      o.item(i).execute( oTransformer );
    }
  }catch( e ){ return e; }
  return ",������";
}
function displaySex( sex ){
  var sexStr = new String(sex.item(0).getNodeValue());
  if( "m" == sexStr ) return "Sir";
  else if( "f" ==sexStr ) return "Madam";
  else return new String(sex.item(0).getNodeValue());
}
</lxslt:script>
</lxslt:component>
<xsl:template match="person">
   <result>
       <my-ext:out>
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <xsl:value-of select="my-ext:displaySex(@sex)
"/>���</my-ext:out>
   </result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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I called function displaySex in this way, <xsl:value-of
select="my-ext:displaySex(@sex) "/>, and I think the argument @sex should be
a string. However it turn out to be a DTM object equivelant to NodeList. I
am not sure why. And whem I implement the same funtion in Java, the argument
called in the same way is a String. And the java code is below.
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package a;
import org.apache.xalan.extensions.XSLProcessorContext;
import org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemExtensionCall;
import org.apache.xalan.templates.ElemTemplateElement;
public class A{
public String out( XSLProcessorContext xslProcContext
,                                           ElemExtensionCall elmExtCall){
org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl oTrsfImpl =
           xslProcContext.getTransformer();
org.w3c.dom.NodeList oList = elmExtCall.getChildNodes();
try{
  for( int i = 0 ; i < oList.getLength() ; i ++ ){
   ((ElemTemplateElement)oList.item(i)).execute(oTrsfImpl);
  }
}catch(Exception e){
  e.printStackTrace();
}
return ",������";
}
public String displaySex( String strSex){
if( strSex.equals("m") ) return "����";
else if( strSex.equals("f") ) return "Ůʿ";
else return strSex;
}
}
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And the xsl document that call the java code below
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GB2312"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0"
xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"; xmlns:my-ext="ext1"
extension-element-prefixes="my-ext">
<xsl:output encoding="GB2312"/>
<lxslt:component prefix="my-ext" elements="out"   functions="displaySex">
<lxslt:script lang="javaclass" src="xalan://a.A">       </lxslt:script>
</lxslt:component><xsl:template match="person">
<results>
  <my-ext:out>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:value-of select="my-ext:displaySex(@sex)"/>
    ���
    </my-ext:out>
  </results>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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And my question is why there are such difference between Javascript and 
Java?

Cyfer(Zhang, Xin)
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