Subject: Re: XPath that returns nothing
From: Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:24:34 -0400
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On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 12:07 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
[...]
> if you have a function that expects a single
> element and you go
> xsl:param name="x" as="element()"
> then if one of the input documents is bad the error percolates up to the
> top level and not only that document fails to produce but the entire run
> is aborted.
So use, as="element(sockColour)?" maybe?
You still get some additional sanity checking and maybe some performance
benefits, with less strictness...
Liam
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