Saxon

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Mike Kay

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As you suspected this is a duplicate of 1692540. I'm closing it now: if you want to discuss it further, please use the saxon-help list. As stated on the front page of the bugs tracker, I prefer to use this section of the site only for known confirmed problems as it makes it more useful to people doing searches.

Your extension function is declared to return "Object", but the XSLT code is trying to use the result as a string. At run-time the function sometimes returns a string and sometimes an array of characters. Saxon won't be able to cope with this, it certainly won't treat the array of characters as a string. I'd suggest declaring the return type as String (and of course always returning a string). I would also suggest (a) declaring the type of the variable (as="xs:string"), and (b) changing the stylesheet version to "2.0", all of which gives you stronger compile-time type checking.