DB2 9 does not support XSLT supported functions. However, DB2 V9.5 provides the functionality of processing XML document using XSL transformation within the database itself. The XML document stored in the database can be transformed to the HTML format by applying XLST stylesheet. To do this, DB2 V9.5 introduces the xsltransform function. It also supports stylesheets which use parameters. The xsltransform function can apply the XSLT stylesheet stored in a database table column as an XML document on an XML document. This gives the user the flexibility to retrieve a transformed XML document from the database and directly represent it on the web.

DB2 V9 supports XSLTransformToClob and XSLTransformToFile XSLT function.

XSLTransformToClob() reads an XML document as CLOB locator and a stylesheet as CLOB or from a file, and returns the document as CLOB.

XSLTransformToFile() Transforms the incoming XML document with the stylesheet and the XSLT parameter document. The transformed XML document is written into a file. When a directory and a suffix are passed as parameters, this UDF creates a file with the specified suffix in the specified directory.