hello,

just began to play with functions, but got error (see subject) at this
simple function

    <xsl:function name="local:path" as="node()">
        <xsl:param name="uri"/>
        <node><xsl:value-of select="string-join((tokenize($uri,'/')[1
to (last()-1)]), '/')"/></node>
    </xsl:function>

look like "last()-1" not acceptable here
any suggestions?

I think you want
  tokenize($uri, '/')[position() != last()]

	Martin Honnen
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