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From: S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:18:27 -0400

On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Chris Leishman wrote:

The spec states in section 12.1 Multiple Source Documents "If there is an error retrieving the resource, then the XSLT processor may signal an error; if it does not signal an error, it must recover by returning an empty node-set."

So both behaviours are correct.
....and people wonder why the different implementations are so incompatible....

Really...what where the W3C thinking? Perhaps someone should start a list of 'standard implementation choices for implementing the xslt standard' (rolls eyes) and maybe that'll become YAWNS (Yet Another W3C uNsuccessful Standard).

They're already on the way... the WD for xslt 2.0 says this about "unparsed-text" function

"[ERR117] It is a dynamic error if a URI cannot be used to retrieve a resource containing text. The processor must either signal the error, or must recover by treating the URI as if it referenced a resource containing a zero-length string."

Just glancing at the XPath 2.0 / xquery 1.0 WD I can't tell but it seems the same for fn:document:

14.5.3 "An error in processing the fragment identifier is classed as a dynamic error. In such cases, then an error is raised ("Error processing fragment identifier"), or the processor must recover by returning an empty sequence."

hooray :-\

simon

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