RE: apply-templates and predicates

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Subject: RE: apply-templates and predicates
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:01:56 -0400

At 05:31 AM 4/28/2005, you wrote:

It also increases the chances that the stylesheet will do something unwanted when the schema changes

Unless your definition of "unwanted" considers that data being silently dropped is more unwanted than data passed through even to an invalid result....

(Not that there aren't third possibilities like trapping an exception in some way for unexpected input, for example by using xsl:message or any of a number of other techniques. But the point is, sometimes you'll be expressing and controlling tighter constraints over your output than over your input -- if you are validating your output you can rely on that to catch problems there; but validation processes can't usually see where data that was there, is now missing. So what's "unwanted" depends on the context. Or to put it another way, you're right -- and sometimes it's a good thing that your stylesheet does something unwanted.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: apply-templates and predicates, (continued)
- tom tom - 27 Apr 2005 16:01:23 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 27 Apr 2005 16:34:09 -0000
- tom tom - 28 Apr 2005 09:31:17 -0000
  - David Carlisle - 28 Apr 2005 09:45:33 -0000
  - Wendell Piez - 28 Apr 2005 18:16:50 -0000 <=
    - Edward Bryant - 28 Apr 2005 18:40:03 -0000
    - Michael Kay - 28 Apr 2005 19:14:38 -0000
- cknell - 28 Apr 2005 13:45:42 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 28 Apr 2005 13:49:52 -0000

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