RE: empty nodeset throws exception in saxon

Thanks, yes, known error. The fault actually occurs in any expression that
tries to find the parent of the root node. Fixed in next version, which I'm
frantically testing at the moment.

There are lots of ways of getting an empty node-set, in my perverse way I
rather like "@comment()".

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Großmann [mailto:ag16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 February 2000 15:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: empty nodeset throws exception in saxon
> 
> 
> I am using saxon and just found that initializing a template parameter
> with an empty nodeSet, like this
> 
> <xsl:param name="myNodes" select="/.."/>
> 
> causes saxon to throw a nullpointer exception.
> 
> The same code works fine with lotus-xslt.
> 
> A simple solution is to select some node which isn't actually present 
> in the input file, like this
> 
> <xsl:param name="myNodes" select="/dummy"/>
> 
> works for both tools.
> 
> Axel.
> 
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