RE: Do Templates Conflict?

> > There is a massive gotcha here (or a bug in the spec,
> > depending on your point of view).
>
> A feature, I think!
> > Note the template in 'a.xsl' specifies priority 10.  Even
> > with this, the
> > output is 'B' from 'b.xsl'.  Because the first rule in
> > template conflict
> > resolution is import precedence, and one of the rules of import
> > precedence is 'the last import wins', so the processor
> ignores all the
> > usual ways to control priority.
> >
> > However in this case, the usual "ambiguous rule match"
> warning isn't
> > output, making it very hard to track down.  I have asked
> Mike on the
> > Saxon list a while back if it's possible to give a warning for this
> > specific case, so hopefully it will make it into 8.5 :)
>
> This test would be a very expensive one, and it would give a
> lot of spurious messages for perfectly valid stylesheets. The
> test would therefore have to be switched off by default; but
> 99% of the people who would be helped by the test wouldn't
> know about the switch. So it's not clear that this is a
> useful thing to do.

That's a similar answer to what you gave last time (and David's answer
is too :)

http://www.xslt.com/html/xsl-list/2005-01/msg01289.html

The warning I was requesting was for when one template is chosen over
another purely on the basis that its containing stylesheet was imported
after the stylesheet containing the other conflicting template, *not*
when the usual import selection happens.

cheers
andrew