The effect of dynamic errors occurring during pattern evaluation is
described here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#pattern-errors

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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Nesterovsky [mailto:vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 July 2008 16:37
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  SFINAE in xslt?
> 
> I'm curious if in the xslt 2.0 works SFINAE principle 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_failure_is_not_an_error)
> regarding template match?
> 
> For a template:
> 
> <xsl:template match="if[then/exactly-one(signal)]"/>
> 
> and a code
> 
> <xsl:variable name="statement" as="element()">
>   <if>
>     <then/>
>   </if>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$statement"/>
> 
> what are chances to not to fail on the specified template?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Vladimir Nesterovsky
> http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com