I want to extend and register my own function as detailed here:

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...pressions.html see section: 6.5.11 Functions.

However, I wish to use this expression from a spring xml file and not in code as presented in the page.

How do I get a reference to the "StandardEvaluationContext" object used by spring while parsing my xml file? without having that spring can't find my registered function.

Thanks,

Yair