> Not sure if it helps or not, but here is the vb.net code I use:

OK, thanks, you didn't mention it was on .NET or vb.net in particular. Looks
as if I might need to do some more testing in that environment: nearly all
my .NET testing was from C#.

If you hit other such problems, please do raise them on the saxon-help list
or forum. The .NET product is quite new so usability feedback is very much
appreciated.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> 
>         Public Sub Transform(ByVal xslDoc As String, ByVal 
> xmlDoc As String, _
>             ByVal output As String)
> 
> 
>             'Create a New Processor instance
>             Dim processor As New Processor
>             'Load the source document
>             Dim input As XdmNode =
> processor.NewDocumentBuilder.Build(New Uri(xmlDoc))
>             'Create the transformer for the stylesheet
>             Dim transformer As XsltTransformer
>             Try
>                 transformer = _
>                     processor.NewXsltCompiler().Compile(New 
> Uri(xslDoc)).Load()
>             Catch ex As Exception
>                 MsgBox("Exception" & ex.ToString)
>                 MsgBox(ex.StackTrace)
>                 Throw New Exception(ex.Message)
>             End Try
> 
>             'Set the root node of the source document to be the
> initial context node
>             transformer.InitialContextNode = input
> 
>             'Create the serializer
>             Dim serializer As New Serializer
>             Try
>                 serializer.SetOutputStream(New FileStream(output,
> FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
>                 'Transform the source XML
>                 transformer.Run(serializer)
>             Catch ex As Exception
>                 Throw New Exception(ex.Message)
>             Finally
>                 serializer = Nothing
>             End Try
> 
>         End Sub
> 
> 
> On 4/10/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When using the Saxon api the error message I'm getting 
> back is "Failed
> > > to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected". Figuring this 
> wasn't quite
> > > enough info to go on
> >
> > You're doing something wrong in your API calls if you're 
> not seeing the
> > error messages...
> >
> > I ran it through stylus with Saxon 8.1.1, I get
> > > "Required type of first argument of name() is node(); 
> supplied value
> > > has type xdt:anyAtomicType" on line 11 below:
> > >
> > > When I change line 5 to  <xsl:variable name="namelist"
> > > select="//*[not(name() = following::*/name())]"/> I still 
> get an error
> > > through Stylus, but it runs fine through .net.
> >
> > 8.1.1 was quite a long time ago, before node/name() was 
> permitted by the
> > specs.
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> > >
> > > 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > 2 <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > > 3 x mlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> > > 4
> > > 5 <xsl:variable name="namelist"
> > > select="distinct-values(//*/node-name())"/>
> > > 6
> > > 7  <xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/>
> > > 8
> > > 9 <xsl:template match="/">
> > > 10   <xsl:for-each select="$namelist">
> > > 11     <xsl:variable name="thisname" select="name()"/>
> > > 12     <name value="{$thisname}"
> > > count="{count($root//*[name() = $thisname])}"/>
> > > 13   </xsl:for-each>
> > > 14 </xsl:template>
> > > 15
> > > 16 </xsl:stylesheet>
> > >
> > > On 4/7/06, Jay Bryant <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Good one, Mike, and thanks for reminding me about 
> distinct-values().
> > > >
> > > > Jay Bryant
> > > > Bryant Communication Services
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:13 PM
> > > > Subject: RE:  Getting a specific element count from a
> > > generic match
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > > > > > <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > > > > > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   <xsl:variable name="namelist" select="//*[not(name() =
> > > > > > following::*/name())]"/>
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > We're talking 2.0 here: you can get all the distinct 
> names using
> > > > >
> > > > > select="distinct-values(//*/node-name())"
> > > > >
> > > > > That's O(n log n) rather than O(n^2), and it's also
> > > namespace-aware.
> > > > >
> > > > > Michael Kay
> > > > > http://www.saxonica.com/