Re: error: At xsl:choose, the value of "" is not a no

Thanks for all the help, guys.  Sorry for not
mentioning the processor I use.  I currently use Saxon
6.0.2 (I know, I should be upgrading :(.  I will do
exactly that after finishing up this release of the
product).

After some investigation, the problem turned out to be
template name conflicts.  I had included a number of
XSL files in gXML2ePASS_base.xsl, and two of which had
the same template name operate on the same element.  I
modified them to use unique template names and now it
works fine.

My question is, how come it did not complain about
conflict template names during compile?  Does it
instead compiles each of the included XSL by itself?

Much thanks,
Xiaocun

--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Xiaocun:
> 
> I think the problem is with the value of
> $OrganizationHeader, which you're 
> passing into the FixAttribute template. What is it?
> I'll bet it's not a 
> node-set. In other words, my guess is that $header
> isn't a node-set in the 
> XPath inside your starts-with().
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 05:29 PM 8/1/01, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >   I am puzzled at an error I am encountering:
> >Transform failed: At xsl:choose on line 149 of
> >file:/C:/test/gXML2ePASS_base.xsl: The value of ""
> is
> >not a node-set
> >
> >The xsl:choose line in question is the one in the
> >following code, line 4 in FixAttribute template.
> >
> ><xsl:template name="FixAttribute">
> >   <xsl:param name="header"></xsl:param>
> >   <xsl:if test="./node()">
> >     <xsl:choose>
> >       <xsl:when
>
>test="starts-with($header/cell[@column=current()/@column],
> >'*')">
> >         <xsl:attribute
>
>name="{substring($header/cell[@column=current()/@column],
> >2)}">
> >           <xsl:call-template name="CheckForDate">
> >             <xsl:with-param name="attributeName"
> >select="$header/cell[@column=current()/@column]"/>
> >           </xsl:call-template>
> >         </xsl:attribute>
> >       </xsl:when>
> >       <xsl:otherwise>
> >         <xsl:attribute
> >name="{$header/cell[@column=current()/@column]}">
> >           <xsl:call-template name="CheckForDate">
> >             <xsl:with-param name="attributeName"
> >select="$header/cell[@column=current()/@column]"/>
> >           </xsl:call-template>
> >         </xsl:attribute>
> >       </xsl:otherwise>
> >     </xsl:choose>
> >   </xsl:if>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >This template is called in:
> ><xsl:template match="cell" mode="Organization">
> >   <xsl:if test="current()">
> >     <xsl:call-template name="FixAttribute">
> >       <xsl:with-param name="header"
> >select="$OrganizationHeader"/>
> >     </xsl:call-template>
> >   </xsl:if>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >The "" node-set the error refers to is the cell
> >element?  If so, I should have filtered it out with
> ><xsl:if test="./node()">, right?
> >
> >Any help would be very much appeciated.
> >
> >Xiaocun
> 
> 
>
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